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18 April 2025  /  Elizabeth Bruenig, of The Atlantic – lifted from The Atlantic's article “The Harem of Elon Musk”

The first four paragraphs of an article about Elon's personal eugenics project, involving big time payoffs to women bear and raise his children, with whom he wants nothing to do with.  A story straight out of Tales of the Third Reich. Full excerpt here

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15 April 2025  /  William Kristol, of The Bulwark – lifted from The Bullwark email of 15 April 2025

“… one of the things we tell ourselves to make ourselves feel better is that Trump’s supporters fall into only two camps: There are the Trumpist elites, dedicated authoritarians out for money and power. And there are ignorant followers, true believers, brainwashed by social media.

Both camps exist. But there is a third class that for some reason I couldn’t stop thinking about yesterday: His sophisticated apologists. Those who, we are told, really know better. Those who often express some qualms in private, but in public accelerate the degradation of American democracy.

 

These apologists presumably were among the college graduates who voted for Trump in 2024. Some Trump opponents like to tell themselves that Trump does better among the less educated. That’s true: 56 percent of non-college graduates voted for Trump. But 42 percent of college graduates did as well. And 42 percent isn’t that much smaller a figure than 56 percent.And one should add that those tens of millions of educated Trump supporters are disproportionately important. Trump and Trumpism couldn’t be sustained by only authoritarian elites and brainwashed masses. Trumpism depends on these educated apologists.”    

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