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We helped defeat fascism in Europe, Americans can rightly claim; we also helped inspire Europe’s fascists, who looked longingly at the United States’ reactionary tradition of genocide and racial segregation.

Their connection to power is thanks to the so-called tech right, a reactionary movement against liberalism led by some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley.

They are hopeless reactionaries, desperately trying to resurrect a world that has already buried them.

I think what is less obvious to many is how deeply and easily reactionary paranoia seems to grip the country and the damage it can do along the way.

In the tradition of reactionaries everywhere, including his "buddy" Trump, Musk tends to project his sins onto people he dislikes.