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I'm gonna call bullshit on this. For years now, I've been reading articles just like this one, and at the end of the day, nobody that could change anything did a fucking thing. It's just posturing and means nothing.
Everybody hated everybody and I didn't like what Trump was doing, but I fucking did it anyway. Buy my book.
Pre-covid Musk quit Trumps presidential councils over "withdrawal of the Paris climate accord." If nothing else, theres a possibility, I guess...
Pre-covid Musk was still pretending to be a liberal.
Yeah, well...
Happened once, doesn't mean it's can't happen again. No matter how unlikely, this time.
I'm thinking at this point he can't un-ring that bell. Maybe he has a stroke and pulls a reverse Fetterman, or better yet, has a stroke and pulls a Winston Churchill.
"nobody that could change anything did a fucking thing"
Actually, things did happen. Many things happened. Your ignorance of them doesn't mean they didn't happen.
In this case we have an incoming chaos presidency. Government by chaos doesn't work well and tends to return to stasis not least because people tend to want to do their jobs. Musk will disappear onto his next ADHD and excessive wealth-fueled adventure, probably Vance will have Trump shuffled quietly to the side (or maybe out a window) and the infighting among cabinet members and political appointees will ensure that few of Trump's "promises" are kept.
There will be lots of damage, many people will suffer, and recovery will take a long time. But out of that things will change.
Yea, lots of things did happen, and most of them were bad. The people that I'm referring to that "could change" things are the republicans that could use their votes to stop tyranny, but none of them did.
I hope that you're correct that we will see change from this, but I don't agree with you that Musk is going to fade into political irrelevance and that JD will sunset Trump.