The richest man in the world has deployed all his power, in the most expensive election the world has ever seen, to help elect the most powerful president of the world’s most powerful country, with the explicitly stated aim of changing the nature of its government.
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Elon Musk’s involvement in Donald Trump’s campaign represents an unprecedented fusion of financial and technological power with political power in any modern democracy.
The good thing is that it is relatively transparent. Musk has
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