Why The Elites Fear Elon Musk: He’s a Threat to Their Empire

Turn on any corporate news channel, flip through any legacy newspaper, or suffer through a late-night "satire" show, and you’ll see it: Elon Musk, public enemy number one. The attack narrative is relentless—he’s a greedy billionaire exploiting the system, a rogue operator circumventing norms, and, horror of horrors, unelected. This is rich coming from a political class that has spent the last century perfecting the art of siphoning public wealth into private hands under the guise of democracy. The establishment isn’t mad that Musk is gaming the system. They’re mad he’s not doing it their way. Who Really Runs the Show? The claim that Musk is using government power to enrich himself might be compelling—if it weren’t being peddled by…