Maddowblog-As Elon Musk amplifies white supremacist messaging, will Republicans keep his money?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

As the billionaire eyes a new round of support for GOP candidates, it's worth asking whether his contributions are radioactive.

Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but shouldn’t Elon Musk’s campaign contributions be considered radioactive right about now?

Especially as he plans to open his wallet again for Republicans ahead of the midterms? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-09T19:52:18.258Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/as-elon-musk-amplifies-white-supremacist-messaging-will-republicans-keep-his-money

Billionaire Elon Musk has been a highly controversial figure for quite a while, but the former DOGE chief is finding new ways to draw attention to himself. The Daily Beast reported:

President Donald Trump’s once and future First Buddy has endorsed a social media post calling for white people — especially men — to defend their political power against other races and ethnicities.

‘If White men become a minority, we will be slaughtered,’ a user going by the name Jerr wrote on X. ‘Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they will be 1000x times more hostile and cruel when they are a majority over Whites. White solidarity is the only way to survive.’

To be sure, Musk didn’t write that missive, but just days after dining with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the billionaire used the social media platform he owns to amplify and endorse the explicitly white supremacist message......

The trouble is, Musk (who’s made similar vows in the recent past before reversing course) has already indicated he’s ready to boost Republicans again ahead of Election Day 2026.

Axios reported a few weeks ago:

Elon Musk has begun funding the GOP’s House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms — an indication his relationship with President Trump has thawed since their messy breakup earlier this year.

Musk — who threatened to launch a third party and support challengers to Republican incumbents during his dispute with Trump — is now firmly back in the GOP’s camp. The tech billionaire recently cut big checks to help Republicans win congressional races next year and indicated he’d give more throughout the 2026 cycle, two sources with knowledge of the situation tell Axios.

.....Will Republican beneficiaries of the billionaire’s generosity face questions about the propriety of accepting money from someone who amplifies white supremacist messages? Watch this space

[Javaman]

1. of course they will keep his money. as if there were ever a doubt.

they are part of the group think that lacks empathy, morals or ethics

[tblue37]

2. Voters don't like when Musk attempts to buy elections. His machinations should be loudly exposed to voters.

[haele]

3. Non-White men hate White men?

No, all men just minding their own business hate asshole bullies who think their shit don't stink...

Also, folks who break their backs working for pennies tend to hate the folks that make hundreds of thousands of dollars profit on the hard work they only pay a couple dollars their average work force for - and then scream and cry about how hard and evil it is to want to make them give up just a day sunbathing on a yacht in Malta over the winter just to give their entire company decent healthcare for a year.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening

Elon really is a nazi and with supremacist

Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

— (@sonja-k.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T16:58:18.371Z

https://religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-just-endorsed-blatant-white-nationalism-and-the-silence-is-deafening/

On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:

If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they will be 1000x times [sic] more hostile and cruel when they are a majority over whites. White solidarity is the only way to survive.

Again, because so many are insistent that “retweet does not equal endorsement,” it’s important to note that Musk added the ‘100%’ endorsement emoji.

At this point, we’re so desensitized to Elon Musk’s open endorsement of blatant white nationalism that we may be tempted to shrug and move on. Beginning in 2022, he steadily embraced more explicit shades of Great Replacement rhetoric, though over the last two years it’s become even more virulent and almost entirely unvarnished. His early flirtations generated major media controversy and pushback. Today, it’s happened too many times to count. Nobody’s surprised anymore—this is the man after all who gave a Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration....

Musk’s retweet comes as he is angling to hitch his wagon back up to MAGA and the GOP for the 2026 midterms, dissipating speculation that, with the crash-out of DOGE and his public feud with Trump, he might form an independent party which could split the right-wing vote.

At times like this, feeling numb to the missives of Musk and so many others is understandable. For many, it’s a protective measure. But as we’re able, we must continue to bear witness, and to let our outrage, our grief and our determination fuel our resistance as we reach together, in ways large and small, for a better world.