By The Daily Caller (Opinion) | Created at 2026-06-11 14:22:36 | Updated at 2026-06-11 23:43:45
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Greetings, Dear Reader,
I’m going to keep this one short today. I’m a bit under the weather and overwhelmed by all the news recently. Its effect on our culture, while I think good and cathartic, will undoubtedly be ugly, as I wrote yesterday.
Today, in Axios …
ELON MUSK, DISGUST AND AXIOS
Some of you may or may not have heard of the media company Axios. It’s a project of Mike Allen, who made his name writing Playbook, Politico’s beltway newsletter.
The business model for Axios, like Playbook before it, is essentially access journalism. It speaks to and for elite political machinery. It markets corporate access to elite political machinery and, in reverse, political access to elite corporate machinery.
That’s what makes it a “success” in the eyes of media elites. That’s also what makes its most recent reaction to Elon Musk so interesting.
Corporations over the years have succumbed to the “spiral of silence.” Vicious left-wing activists who have taken over academia, tech and the media in many ways have enforced the spiral. It works like this: Executive says obviously true thing that departs from leftist orthodoxy. Women prefer different professional pursuits than men do. Men in women’s lingerie shouldn’t be reading to children in public libraries. Or maybe just men cannot become women. Executive then suffers public shame and potentially even, more likely than not, professional censure. He is either fired or forced to step down, etc. Other executives see this and sprint to tweet pro gay race communism content on June 1, the first day of “Gay Pride Month.”
In recent years, both executives and even normal people have begun to wake from this malaise. The spell no longer works as well. Many more people of all stations in life are saying obvious truths.
Elon Musk is perhaps the most bright avatar of this trend. The one-time dedicated liberal has awakened, and he doesn’t like what he sees.
Axios, just this morning, their number one article in their morning newsletter is about how Musk is poised to achieve financial “escape velocity.”
Escape from what?
From consequences previously instated by the activist and political classes if one were to drift too far or, in Musk’s example, outright attack leftist orthodoxy.
He says true things with “impunity” that would otherwise be “disqualifying for almost any other CEO.”
And these things, Axios wants you to know, are “stoking far-right culture wars” and “white identitarian politics.”
These phrases are, as you should now know if you read me often, Dear Reader, negative euphemisms meant to do two things. First, they’re meant to mask the object of the debate.
Is immigration from certain cultures and countries a net good or net negative to the native population? Axios wants you to believe just asking that question is “xenophobic,” but while it might tamp down inquiry, it does nothing to the actual result.
The result, as Elon and others see it, is Pakistani rape gangs, public beheadings like the one that sparked the Belfast riots, or even things as mundane as bulging social services that no longer serve the interests of native peoples. These are all true things that are occurring as a result of leftist orthodoxy applied to policy.
Pointing them out is racist or parlaying “far right” fears.
Secondly, these phrases act as bright shining bat signals to anyone from those dedicated corporate and political power centers that Axios, for one, is still willing to try to enforce the spiral of silence.
If you’re even thinking of joining Elon, don’t do it, we’re watching …
Unfortunately, Axios admits the problem with the posture of leftist acolytes like themselves in the copy of their own piece: Folks who want to make money don’t really give a damn about liberal wishcasting.
It’s not a matter even of is “multiculturalism” good or does “white privilege” exist when it comes to both institutional and retail investors, such as myself.
Is SpaceX likely to become this generation’s first mega-tech company? By the numbers, yes.
Just like the hard truth Axios doesn’t want you to talk about: Is it good for Minnesota to import millions of Somalis? Is it good for there to be so many Sudanese Muslims in Ireland?
Dispense with the gay race mumbo jumbo. It’s straight up and down. It’s binary, like the code that made Elon his first fortune. Yes or no.
Axios would like us to focus on the reactions. As usual, Republican reactions are the story rather than the story itself. But really it’s the simple question they want to avoid answering.
Can men be women? Are public beheadings bad? Will SpaceX dominate space flight?
Their spell isn’t working anymore, that’s the actual story they’re telling.
People want answers, and if they don’t get the correct answers, they’ll take to the streets.
MORE LINKS
Man Lays In Pool Of Blood Outside Police Station In Capital City Pope Visiting
The new normal.
ActBlue CEO Pleads The Fifth When Asked Easiest Question Imaginable
I’m just as shocked as the questioner.
DOJ Goes For The Jugular Of Left-Wing Legal Power
Ripple effect.
