Erick Erickson has an uneasy feeling concerning the Trump-Musk whatever-it-is:
Oh, and Trump just alienated Leonard Leo, who has over a billion dollars to spend advancing the right.
In both the case of Elon Musk and Leonard Leo, I suspect a few too many grifters have whispered in the ears of those around the President to help poison the well for their own advantage, not for the rest of us or even the President.
I assume, because of their mutual interests, Musk and Trump will ultimately kiss and make up and everyone will insist it was all staged. I wouldn’t be surprised if we get some peace offering of some kind today, probably a meme on Twitter from Musk. Neither man wants to give the left a win, and both men share a list of common enemies.
If this is not a scripted event to con the left, and everyone else, then Erickson’s worries about grifters is fully justified. The near-absolute individualism of the United States has a popular attribute: avarice. That’s the teachings of the United States, after all, and why the financial industry is huge.
But avarice is not an attribute of the cooperative, such as Trump/Musk. Avarice justifies theft, betrayal, and many of the other behaviors not desired in cooperatives. Avarice and self-sacrifice are immiscible over the long term, unstable over the short-term.
The left, less wed to individualism than the right, tends to be unstable due to autocratic tendencies exacerbated by the skepticism of independents and the right concerning lefty proposals that impinge on individualistic rights. Just sayin’.
