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How Musk is embracing the Donald's billionaire populism

How Musk is embracing the Donald's billionaire populism
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The Wall Street Journal
By Tim HigginsIt is hard not to see echoes of Donald Trump in Elon Musk these days.Both are world-famous entrepreneurs who have faced operatic dramas. Both are provocative on social issues, can be politically incorrect and, at times, even crude. And excel at the art of the sell – themselves and their companies – and the ability to spin the world around their vision of it.The greatest similarity, though, comes from how they built a populist following through years of savvy use of Twitter-turned-X. T...

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