Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told POLITICO that Musk “could take the company in a far better direction” for those he claimed have been “unfairly silenced or censored by Twitter’s assault on conservative free speech and ideas it doesn’t like.”

Other GOP lawmakers took to the very platform at play — Twitter — to praise Musk’s free-wielding content moderation philosophies and admonish his critics.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) tweeted out: “Twitter’s censors are freaking out about Elon Musk because they can’t buy his silence. It’s clear big tech can’t handle people with a different viewpoint.”

Conservative firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Fox Business — and then shared as a video clip on Twitter — “let’s hope this goes through and we have free speech on Twitter again.”