Elon Musk Isn’t Trolling Britain. He’s Doing Something Much Worse.
By Louis Staples
Since last summer, when the Labour Party won a landslide majority, ending 14 years of Conservative government, Mr. Musk has accused Britain of going "full Stalin," being a tyrannical police state" and sliding toward and "inevitable" civil war...
He accused senior government figures of covering up sexual abuse committed by grooming gangs and asked his followers whether “America should liberate the people of Britain” from their government.
Some might shrug this off as mere provocation, yet Mr. Musk’s interest in Britain goes beyond trolling. Not only is he clearly engaged with the country’s politics — he is a vociferous champion of the anti-immigration party Reform U.K. — but his fixation is also part of an emerging narrative on the American right that paints Britain as a boogeyman. Most important, it amounts to an aggressive pursuit of his own political agenda, extending his influence overseas. Mr. Musk’s obsession with Britain is really an obsession with his own power.
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