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# The Making of an Anti-Woke Zealot: How Elon Musk Was Infected with the MAGA Mind-Virus
- URL: https://werd.io/the-making-of-an-anti-woke-zealot-how-elon-musk-was/
- Published: 2025-02-05T12:43:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-05T12:43:18.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Technology, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Eoin Higgins, excerpted in Lit Hub](https://lithub.com/the-making-of-an-anti-woke-zealot-how-elon-musk-was-infected-with-the-maga-mind-virus/)\]

This is a neat encapsulation of Musk’s rightward turn, and everything that happened next:

> “By this point, Musk believed that part of the business problem of Twitter was that, somehow, the right wing was “suppressed.” As such, “woke culture” needed to be destroyed for Twitter the business—and democracy itself—to survive. In many ways this belief was a natural outgrowth of the Silicon Valley mythos of meritocracy and the tech industry’s opposition to diversity; a politics based on destroying wokeness was not far from the supremacist ideology he grew up with in South Africa.”

If you take a step back, it’s remarkable that the weirdest guy from PayPal has evolved into the world’s richest and most dangerous man. This serves as a reminder of what happened.

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\[[Link](https://lithub.com/the-making-of-an-anti-woke-zealot-how-elon-musk-was-infected-with-the-maga-mind-virus/)\]