One Man vs Nato and Three-Sevenths of the G7

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 13:46:36 | Updated at 2024-11-15 15:28:26 1 hour ago

One Man vs Nato and Three-Sevenths of the G7
SteynonLine ^ | November 15, 2024 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 11/15/2024 5:34:02 AM PST by Twotone

~Sixty-six days from America's uniquely unique peaceful transfer of power, the winning side is having a grand old time watching Trump troll a discredited and impotent not-so-mainstream media. The central criticism of every appointment - that this guy is not part of the club, not from the ranks of the uniparty ruling class - is, in fact, the minimum entry qualification if you're serious about pulling the US back from the looming cliff edge. If Merrick Garland and Lloyd Austin are what it means to be a sober respectable "public servant", Trump might as well hand out Cabinet positions from the drive-thru window: Do you want the Department of the Interior with that?

Nevertheless, it seems clear that without Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter it would have been all but impossible for Trump to win the election. It is only because of Musk that analysts can assert "the Internet has replaced TV as a source of information". Sans Musk, the Internet and mainstream media are one and the same: last time round, both "Sixty Minutes" and NPR, on the one hand, and Facebook and Google, on the other, were agreed that Hunter Biden's laptop was not a story, and they had the muscle to prevent it becoming one.

Speaking as someone who found himself almost two decades back cast in a role he would never consciously have sought, I have to say that it is rather unusual for the world's richest man to be a planet-bestriding "free speech warrior". In my experience, the billionaire class are among the least reliable on the subject - as, indeed, Trump was a decade ago.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; freespeech; marksteyn; nato

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1 posted on 11/15/2024 5:34:02 AM PST by Twotone

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