But the greatest uncertainty … is what this campaign’s influx of Big Tech money will mean, in terms of how the administration shifts. Everyone can see that this is Elon Musk’s win as much as Trump’s: what does that mean for the conservative establishment?
Elon is, after all, not your regular social conservative. He wants to colonise Mars. He has something like 12 children, with multiple women, via a mix of surrogacy, IVF and the old-fashioned method. He wants to implant chips in people’s brains. He envisions using technology to become something more than human. And he now owns the world’s town square, and the incoming President of the United States owes him a favour.
At least some of these things will (to put it mildly) place a strain on fundamental social conservative precepts about the family and the human person.
At the risk of overstatement (which is how I should start every sentence for the next few weeks), I highly doubt that conservatives those on the right with newfound admiration for Musk — the other businessman who will fix everything — have given this sort of incongruity any thought at all.