The progressives, once called liberals, have a new target to hate. He is Elon Musk. By the way, the progressives have become very complacent about their targets for hatred. They hate Musk today, but it cannot be only because he is the richest man in the world. There is a tremendous competition to be the richest man in the world, and what I would have thought would make this competition all the more ferocious is that most of the competitors are Yanks. From week to week or month, to month billionaires such as Jeff Bezos (of Amazon), Bill Gates (of Microsoft), and Mark Zuckerberg (of Meta) are competing with Musk to be the richest man on the planet. It all depends on the stock market at any point in time.

Right now, it is Mr. Musk. He is rumored to be worth between $171 billion and $300 billion depending on the value of his holdings at any one time, and it has the progressives furious. But why do they not get exercised over the other billionaires? As I say, it seems that the progressives have become complacent about so many Americans competing to be the richest man on the planet. Back in the good old days I should think that having so many American billionaires competing to be the richest man in the world would have do-gooders such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders up in arms. You would think these left-wing senators would be on the Senate floor night and day shouting for confiscatory taxation or, better yet, a simple wealth tax.