By now there are a ton of reasons why the left hates Elon Musk. His role in DOGE and defunding the illicit and evil NGOs and threatening the sinecures of leftists like Stacey Abrams tops the list, but Musk turned into their Emmanuel Goldstein long before Elon hooked up with Trump. 

Jonathan Turley, whose current project is reclaiming free speech for all Americans, hits the nail on the head when he points out that Musk's ultimate sin in the eyes of the left was his purchase of Twitter and his release of the Twitter Files. 

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2025

The most effective tool that leftists have had in pushing their agenda has been the stranglehold they held on information and the national conversation. With the exception of Fox News and a few independent media outlets that they have warred against--like Hot Air and Townhall--the left owned the intellectual means of production here and abroad. 

Not only did they own Pravda Media, but they controlled all the major social media platforms where people could be silenced if they became a thorn in the side of the lefties. The government funded media they liked through USAID and pushed censorship of media and people they disliked through USAID, the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, including the FBI, and subsidies to foreign censorship organizations. 

Then Elon Musk broke the social media monopoly by buying Twitter and opening up a free speech public square. 

The left went insane, and it's hard to blame them. Suddenly, their monopoly was broken--and worse, the left had been using Twitter as a primary means of communication through which they coordinated The Narrative. Anybody who was on Twitter in the bad old days could, quite literally, watch The Narrative be formed and honed as Pravda "journalists" tried out potential propaganda tactics, refined them, and then sent them out into the world. 

It's no coincidence that vast numbers of media folks abandoned Twitter for alternatives that reached far fewer people. They made ridiculous claims about rising hate as they flocked to BlueSky, which is filled with literal calls for assassinating conservatives. It wasn't the rhetoric they decried but the fact that conservatives could fight back against their lies and prebunk their narratives before they escaped into the wild. 

Twitter was suddenly filled with those videos that the media claimed were "cheap fakes," and everybody could see for themselves what the media tried to hide. Context suddenly appeared. Ordinary people could challenge and refute what the liars and hoaxers were trying to sell to a previously blindfolded public. 

Suddenly, the Hoi Polloi could get blue checkmarks, and the media lost its monopoly on prestige. Pseudonymous Twitter accounts could gain prominence by being smarter or more amusing than they, and memes could make fun of them with abandon. 

Facebook, Google, TikTok, and all the subservient tools of the left suddenly lost relevance, and the X app became the #1 news app in the Apple App Store. 

It was infuriating. And worse, actively damaging to the brands of the Pravda Media. 

Trust in the media has been declining for years, but after Twitter was freed, it plummeted to levels that make Congress look popular. Child rapists--at least if they are illegal aliens--are more popular than major media folks in some circles. 

Elon Musk emasculated the media even more than Donald Trump. Trump pummeled them and rallied a crowd around him, setting the stage, but Twitter/X provided the tools to chop their nuts off. 

The left tried everything to destroy Twitter/X after Musk bought it--the advertising ban, the threats to use the European Union's regulatory power to fine Musk's companies out of business, and eventually even threats of assassination. They are still pushing all these tools, and Musk has told them f**k you to their faces. 

Their war against Musk still rages, and is still failing. As leftists commit domestic terrorism as an escalation against him, Musk carries on systematically dismantling their most prized possession: control over the means of communication. 

It might or might not be an exaggeration to say that Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter got Donald Trump reelected. There is no one factor to explain such an extraordinary event. 

But it sure made a difference by creating a free speech zone, and depriving the left of the place where they plotted their hoaxes and crafted their narratives. 

They will never forgive him. No wonder he still wants to escape to Mars. It will be the last safe place in the solar system before this is done.