Article 6BX2D What is going on with Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis? | Robert Reich

What is going on with Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis? | Robert Reich

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Robert Reich
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What unites Musk and DeSantis isn't libertarianism at all. It's authoritarianism

The real significance of Ron DeSantis's presidential announcement on Twitter had little to do with DeSantis but everything to do with Musk.

It's that Twitter, under Musk, has fully embraced the political right.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com

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