埃隆·马斯克被描绘为本世纪在两三个行业、并通过六家公司极为有效，却在政治上无效：在因开支和清洁能源削减反对特朗普的“宏伟美丽法案”后，他宣布成立美国党，但没有把它建设成严肃的第三党竞争。
他的政治手法被描绘为放大版的19世纪机器政治：在2024年总统选举前，他向摇摆州选民提供100万美元的彩票式派彩，购买Twitter/X作为自己的媒体平台，并把威斯康星州一场司法选举说成会影响“人类的整个命运”，尽管他支持的候选人落败。
核心统计趋势是分裂，尤其是种族分裂：《经济学人》的分析发现，过去三年里，马斯克在X上宣扬白人种族意识的帖子显著增加，包括1月用“100%”表情转发支持“白人团结”的内容，2月声称过去十多年里任何白人、异性恋或男性都遭到“无情仇恨”，以及2025年在奥斯威辛解放80周年前后对德国选择党发表讲话，敦促德国人超越“过去的罪责”。文章把这与家族历史相连——祖父约书亚·霍尔德曼约八十年前加入技术统治公司、他在20世纪40年代末的反政府转向、全家1950年迁往种族隔离南非，以及马斯克20世纪80年代在反抗浪潮中的求学经历——以论证马斯克的未来主义太空雄心与原始的种族政治并存。
Elon Musk is portrayed as highly effective in two or three industries this century and across six companies, yet politically ineffective: after opposing Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” over spending and clean-energy cuts, he announced the America Party but did not build it into serious third-party competition.
His political methods are framed as 19th-century machine politics scaled up: before the 2024 presidential election he offered $1m lottery-style payouts to battleground-state voters, bought Twitter/X as his own media platform, and cast a Wisconsin judicial race as affecting “the entire destiny of humanity,” though his backed candidate lost.
The central statistical trend is division, especially race: The Economist’s analysis finds a significant rise over the past three years in Musk’s X posts promoting white racial consciousness, including a January “100%” repost endorsing “white solidarity,” a February claim of “unrelenting hate” against anyone white, straight or male over the past decade or more, and 2025 comments to Germany’s AfD near the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation urging Germans to move beyond “past guilt.” The essay links this to family history—grandfather Joshua Haldeman’s Technocracy Incorporated about eight decades earlier, his late-1940s anti-government turn, the family’s 1950 move to apartheid South Africa, and Musk’s 1980s schooling during revolt—to argue that Musk’s futuristic space ambitions coexist with primitive racial politics.
Source: Why can’t Elon Musk do for politics what he’s done for industry?
Subtitle: So much for advancing civilisatio
Dateline: 5月 28, 2026 08:38 上午