You may be right in which case from Elon's side, this visit works tactically against his opponents in his future lawsuits.
It's hard to call him antisemitic when Israel INVITED him to tour round the scene of the attacks. Going far right ain't gonna cut as much either when most of the intelligent side of the right is refusing to get involved and enjoying the self destructive civil war on the left that's happened since.
Which is sadly a smaller group than I had thought, especially if we're talking "mainstream." Essentially all mainstream high profile figures on the right got on board, which was pretty dang disappointing.
And it reaches the critical mass of social bullying that the group that's not going along with it is almost driven into hiding, making their numbers look even smaller. That's what happens when a certain group or narrative controls the view on the Current Thing. Especially when it's largely bipartisan, you don't even have much pushback.
You may be right in which case from Elon's side, this visit works tactically against his opponents in his future lawsuits.
It's hard to call him antisemitic when Israel INVITED him to tour round the scene of the attacks. Going far right ain't gonna cut as much either when most of the intelligent side of the right is refusing to get involved and enjoying the self destructive civil war on the left that's happened since.
Which is sadly a smaller group than I had thought, especially if we're talking "mainstream." Essentially all mainstream high profile figures on the right got on board, which was pretty dang disappointing.
And it reaches the critical mass of social bullying that the group that's not going along with it is almost driven into hiding, making their numbers look even smaller. That's what happens when a certain group or narrative controls the view on the Current Thing. Especially when it's largely bipartisan, you don't even have much pushback.