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Pretty much at random, I ran into this video, in which Vivek Ramaswamy says pretty much what I've been saying about Elon Musk, that the US right sees him as something between a messiah and a caudillo who's going to fix everything that's wrong by fixing Twitter, which in my view can't be fixed. At about 10:30, he says "On the right, there's something about the new hunger for a Christ-like figure, and Elon Musk is the latest Christ-like savior figure for the day. I guess when you don't believe in actual Christ, you start looking for Christ substitutes instead." Jiust the other day, The New Yorker called Ramaswamy The CEO of Anti-Woke, Inc : The term “woke,” which dates back nearly a century, was initially used in Black communities to describe a raising of consciousness and has since become a catchall denoting awareness of a range of social-justice issues. In recent years, “wokeness” has also become, in conservative circles, a subject of suspicion...