The entire artificial, Leftist-propelled controversy over an arm gesture that Elon Musk made at the Inaugural Parade is one of the reasons why Democrats and their media sycophants lost in the last election. The American public just got tired of the persistent, one-sided, and double-standard Democratic gaslighting attempt to portray Trump and his supporters as Nazi-like fascists.
Everyone knows who the real threat to democracy is, and it's not Trump.
At least half of voters recognized that this was a thinly veiled effort at getting voters to stop thinking about Trump’s political program. Indeed, the aim was to distract voters from the true reality that it was the Democrats, not Trump, who were the biggest threat to democracy.
Apparently, the Left has learned nothing about its Hitler rhetoric. As Musk himself rightly commented in an X post: “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.”
Musk at the Inaugural Parade twice threw his arm out from his heart (albeit palm down) in a gesture designed to convey that he was throwing out his heart to them in thanks for voting for Trump. The context makes this exceedingly obvious. He even followed up the gesture immediately with the words, "My heart goes out to you."
A Nazi salute does not start from the heart with one's arm swinging horizontally. It is typically a straight down-up motion; and it is held, not waved around. But the Democrats and their media propagandists went berserk, claiming that Musk was doing a Nazi salute. PBS (please cut their funding), CNN, and other media outlets supported this conclusion.
AOC went ballistic making the same claim. And then Libs of Tik Tok uncovered a video of AOC repeatedly stretching out her arm straight, which, applying the standards used against Musk, would also have to be interpreted as a Nazi salute. Indeed, her arm movement, which was more down-up than Elon's, came in the context of militant rhetoric, unlike the context for Elon's arm gestur...
No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here.
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