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How Musk went from tech hero to "one of the most hated men in America

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 03, 2025
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Elon Musk at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (Joshua Sukoff / Shutterstock.com)

"It is hard to imagine someone whose instincts for politics are worse than Elon Musk's," writes Francis Fukuyama in an anti-paean to self-immolating Elon Musk.

As the DOGE leader, "Neither he nor the engineers he hired (many of them in their twenties) had the…

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