In the world of MAGA, “regime change” is a dirty phrase, often decried as a policy of the bipartisan establishment that has entangled the United States in endless wars ...
As always with Trump and his cronies, you need to look at their actions as well as their words. Often there is a wide divergence between rhetoric and behavior. In his first term, Trump actively and unsuccessfully pursued regime change in Venezuela. In his second term, the record is even worse and more sordid. Elon Musk, nominally overseeing a trimming of the federal government as head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been acting as an ad hoc State Department, using his position as Trump’s closest adviser to push for right-wing parties—some of whom are undeniably racist and neo-Nazi—around the world ...
Some of the parties that Musk has supported, notably the Conservative Party of Canada, are merely right-wing populist within the norms of mature democracies. But his patronage has extended further to regimes and movements that are either authoritarian (such as Viktor Orbán’s government in Hungary) or rooted in neo-Nazism (such as Alternative für Deutschland or AfD in Germany). In the cases where the parties he supports aren’t in power, Musk has promoted government turnover by using his perch both as the owner of a powerful social media outlet (X, formerly known as Twitter) and as a close ally to the US president.
In effect, Musk has started a program of global regime change, one aimed not at America’s perceived foes but at America’s supposed allies. On January 22, Senator Bernie Sanders posted on X, “Elon Musk has been backing neo-Nazi parties around the world, interfering in elections and using his massive platform to attack anyone who doesn’t share his extreme right-wing views.” This is a view shared by French President Emmanuel Macron, who in early January warned that Musk was fomenting a “new international reactionary movement” ...
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/elon-musk-neo-nazi-regime-change/
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