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> Neoconservatives were hawkish members of the old Anti-USSR Left who were disillusioned by the Post Vietnam Democratic Party and travelled away from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.

This is the same talking point parroted by another prominent right-wing commentator here, that implies that some neocons were... so far right that they were actually left?

> Supported by former Democratic intellectuals like Glenn Greenwald.

Glenn Greenwald is not and has never been a Democrat or member of the party or anything resembling that.

Elon Musk was a "Democrat" in the sense that as long as Democrat administrations handed his businesses grants and funding and tax breaks, he didn't shit-talk them. When he saw there was an opportunity to milk these things from Republican administrations, all of a sudden he became "Republican".



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