The SpaceX IPO has made him a trillionaire, for now. But he’s not ‘hoarding’ wealth.
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I am not a huge fan of Elon Musk as a political activist or commentator. I think he’s made Twitter—sorry, X—worse. His support for the nationalist right in Europe has been ugly. His tenure leading DOGE mostly amounted to a missed opportunity and often descended into little more than performative vandalism.
Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things.
