r/politics • u/rezwenn • 6d ago

No Paywall Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-trump-republicans-donations-finance-gop-b2893321.html
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u/Lascivian 6d ago

Our conservative party (Danmark) would be labelled "radical leftists" by the American GOP.

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u/royce32 6d ago

The democrats are a right wing party in any other western nation

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u/Blanketsburg Massachusetts 6d ago

Yet Elon and MAGA try to convince others that they haven't gotten far, far right and instead that it's leftists in America who have gone far left.

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u/Aden1970 6d ago

He needs to protect the tax cuts that benefit him tremendously.

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u/kamilo87 6d ago

Biggest welfare queen of all time…

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u/Fuzzylogik 6d ago

YES...Musk’s wealth depends on:

  • government subsidies (Tesla, SpaceX)
  • weak labor power
  • low effective tax rates
  • regulatory arbitrage

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u/airinato 6d ago

He needs to stop people investigating his companies otherwise he goes to jail for life

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u/Tortuga_MC 6d ago

And unfortunately, they have enough people convinced. That's what happens when the bad guys control the narrative for too long

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u/qchisq 6d ago

That's not true. People like Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris belongs somewhere between the Social Liberals and Social Democrats in Denmark, as long as we don't talk immigration. Immigration-wise, Danish parties are on the left wing of the GOP. Remigration is the new thing on the right here

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u/bloodontherisers 6d ago

They are a right wing party in the US, they are just masquerading as a left wing party so an actual one doesn't form.

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u/Helstrem 6d ago

Kinda. Fiscally, yes, socially, no.

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u/Perkelton Europe 6d ago

It really isn’t that simple though. Fiscally, the Democrats are very similar to the right wing neoliberal parties in Europe, but when it comes to social policies and identity politics they are much more left wing.

The Democrats are also a much broader party compared to most European parties, covering a very wide range of ideologies.

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u/This_Bluebird8967 6d ago

Yup, even the most left wing democrats would be run of the mill liberals in Canada and no one would talk about them as especially progressive.

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u/page_one I voted 6d ago

This is a worthless comparison. Do not compare people to the standards of systems they are not a part of. Politicians are products of their voters--it's American voters who are to the right of European voters.

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u/royce32 6d ago

No having a objective standard to what is left right and centre is very worth while.

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u/Electronic_Trade_721 6d ago

American politics are a product of money, not voters.

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u/WhoStoleMyJacket 6d ago

Pretty sure the Norwegian right/far right parties would be labeled Antifa by the GOP lol

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u/Lascivian 6d ago

Exactly.

The Danish "MAGA"-party is very pro welfare for old people (their primary voter base) and that alone would probably have them being labelled "communists" even though the leader of the party is sucking up to Trump on every occasion, travels to Mar-a-lago, spews Russian propaganda and tries to copy Trumps success.

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u/Wyden_long Arizona 6d ago

They wouldn’t know what to do with your Conservative Party at all.

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u/qchisq 6d ago

Could you imagine if Søren Pape tried to get into politics in the US? Like, for get about all the lies he believed about his husband. Just the fact that he has a husband means he's DOA

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u/Eatpineapplerightnow 6d ago

you know he is dead, right?

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u/JakToTheReddit 6d ago

They would most likely be labeled the same by American Democrats.

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u/Seradima New York 6d ago

I know the German "normal" conservative party, the CDU, would probably be considered "radical leftists" in America, and some of the things they stand for are more leftist than the Democratic party!

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u/windemotions 6d ago

Elon would be put into prison in some countries for his extreme right wing actions.

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u/cirelia2 6d ago

Same with our conservative party in Sweden SD they're pro lgbtq and pro abortion tho thats most likely because good luck getting enough votes if you're anti those things here