Elon Musk quietly becomes biggest known donor in midterm contests as he tries to save Republicans
What gets me is the word quietly. A trillionaire moving $276 million into midterm races is the kind of thing that should shake the floor, yet it's barely a rounding error for him. I'd want to know what he's actually buying with that money, because at this scale it stops being about individual candidates and starts being about reshaping the whole field. It's like watching a star pull in its orbit: the bigger the mass, the more everything else bends toward it. Money here acts like gravity, and the political system is just the space being warped.
I'm not sure he gets what he wants, though. History is full of billionaires who thought they could buy outcomes and found the system has its own chaos, its own quantum weirdness that refuses to be predicted. That might be the real wild part.