According to an expert analysis, Elon Musk is developing a framework to dominate the global political order, putting himself ahead of nation states.
The tech mogul and the world’s richest man poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and is said to be sitting by his side as an unelected co-president, while political commentator Elad Nehorai wrote a column for MSNBC analyzing the billionaire’s authoritarian ambitions.
“Musk’s embrace of the far right has meant backing parties with authoritarian leanings, including Germany’s AfD ,” Nehorai tweeted. “But, in reality, Musk does not want a government-centered authoritarianism like fascism.
He envisions a world in which business swallows the government and becomes the true ruling class. And to understand the bigger picture, we need to look at his strategy in the United States.”
Like Trump, the South African-born Tesla CEO wants to bring down the liberal establishment in the United States and hollow out the federal government, which Nehorai believes is intended to give Musk powerful influence over the country without having to face voters because he is constitutionally barred from running for president.
“Recently appointed as the co-head of a new Department of Government Efficiency, he wants to massively cut the federal government’s budget and workforce ,” Nehorai tweeted.
“This is not an attempt to be efficient; it’s an attempt to destroy the regulatory bodies and bureaucracies that will get in the way of complete control of the government.”
Americans witnessed Musk flexing his new political power last month, when he effectively killed a bipartisan government funding agreement by posting a slew of false claims about the bill – which would have made it more difficult for Tesla to expand into China – and the bill that eventually passed removed those restrictions on US companies investing in China.
“Musk doesn’t just want to destroy the American government’s infrastructure,” Nehorai said. “He seeks to be more powerful than the government itself.
And he’s well on his way to meeting his goal. While many people are rightly concerned about the damage Donald Trump could do to democracy, Musk’s ambitions go far beyond that, threatening to create a system in which corporate power eclipses Trump and the government itself.
Nehorai compared Musk to Gilded Age robber barons such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, but he claims Musk controls technologies such as space exploration, energy, and global communications, all of which are fundamental to modern national security, and that his ambitions extend far beyond influencing the US government for personal gain.
“His desire to go to space and inhabit Mars is not just a dream: He is building the infrastructure to make it happen,” said Nehorai. “The same can be said for Musk’s ambitions in America.
He wants to have more power than the president. This would make him an unelected, technocratic dictator, wielding enormous power without the accountability of democratic oversight.
He has attempted to influence politics in Britain and Germany through his ownership of the social media network X, and he has used his Starlink satellite communications network to shape the conflict in Ukraine, according to Nehorai, and the tech mogul intends to become world dictator.
“From his actions in Britain to his influence in Germany, Musk is building a framework for domination, using corporate power as his tool to control governments and reshape nations in his image,” Nehorai wrote in an email.
“His goal is not only to dominate America, but to establish himself as the unelected ruler of a new global order, wielding power unchecked by elections or oversight.” So far, he’s succeeding.
