By affirming an antisemitic trope, Elon Musk sinks to a dangerous new low

‘Musk is reckless. He’s like an oversized toddler throwing an endless fit of pique.’ Photograph: Leon Neal/AP

When you’ve done as many awful things as Elon Musk has, it’s challenging to outdo yourself. But the billionaire entrepreneur pulled that off this week with his endorsement of a blatantly antisemitic screed.

“You have said the absolute truth,” Musk responded to a social media post that read: “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”