There is a special indignity in spending nearly half a billion dollars trying to buy an election, only to discover the electorate has kicked it with the left foot. Elon Musk, who has spent much of the past few years behaving as though the world were a badly managed subsidiary of his personal fiefdom, has now encountered an inconvenient democratic principle. Money can buy extraordinary things. It cannot always buy the voters.
American voters have demonstrated that Musk’s political influence, however lavishly financed, has limits; he reportedly spent close to $450 million backing Republican candidates. Most of those he supported lost. In Texas, where he concentrated an extraordinary amount of his attention and money, Democrat James Talarico defeated Republican Ken Paxton for a Senate seat. Musk had invested heavily in preventing this outcome. The voters, apparently, had other plans.
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