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Editor's note: This essay is adapted from a tweet shared by the author.

At first impression, it makes no sense that Musk would start firing away at the (admittedly imperfect) budget bill, or escalate to DefCon 1, by tweeting nonsense about impeachment, the Epstein files, or disengaging his successful space efforts from the U.S. agenda to stay preeminent in space.

After all, he and Trump have roughly the same enemies—the Left, that is now delighted at their quarrel—and the same general aims: to repeal the progressive cultural project, to restore meritocracy in lieu of DEI, to strive to ensure the U.S. is globally preeminent economically and militarily, to unfetter the economy, and to limit government intrusion.

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