Florida Conservative

The modern call to eliminate billionaires reflects an underlying anxiety about the direction of contemporary civilization. Yet the problem is not simply the existence of great wealth. It is the cultural and economic order that produces particular forms of wealth and rewards particular forms of human activity.

The greatest encroachments on the sovereignty of the American citizen no longer originate in the White House, or Congress, or even the alphabet soup of administrative agencies. They originate in Silicon Valley server farms, philanthropic foundations in Manhattan, and transnational NGO archipelagos operating under the polite euphemism of “civil society.”

Elon Musk is not the future of political office—but he may be the future of political power. Like George Soros before him, he is playing a long game across platforms, money, and ideology. But where Soros was a whisper, Musk is a roar. The only question now is whether Musk’s roar becomes a revolution—or just another billionaire echo in the halls of American decline.