Mr. X – Claremont Review of Books

Is Musk a conservative? No, or at least not yet. So far, he could be classed among the anti-woke liberals, those who remain loyal to the Left while deploring its excesses. His alliance with them, however, may be fraying. One of the journalists he selected to comb through the so-called Twitter Files records of internal communications including incriminating contact with the FBI on censoring content was Bari Weiss. Her fierce independence had caused her to leave The New York Times over its stifling political correctness and start her own publication, The Free Press. While she was investigating the Twitter Files, she came into conflict with Musk. He suspended a Twitter account that tracked his movements, as well as those of several journalists who reported the fact, when a stalker used the information to attack a limo containing his two-year-old son. Weiss publicly criticized this as a violation of free speech. You can t be a journalist and watch journalists get kicked off Twitter and say nothing, she told Isaacson. Principles still matter to me.

Musk was not amused. They doxxed my plane. They attacked my son, he told her. It is possible that Musk s ongoing political evolution, which has already brought him from vaguely libertarian Obama fan to self-declared super moderate, will send him hurtling past the milquetoast liberals who dislike wokeness but have no problem with the liberalism of five minutes ago. He may decide that conservatism is the only side in this fight that actually has the backbone and the principles to fight back against the enemy he rightly perceives.

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Helen Andrews.