Elon Musk didn’t take the oath of office on Jan. 20, but he might as well have. Donald Trump's newly appointed technocrat-in-chief is already wielding unprecedented power through the Department of Government Efficiency, an agency whose very name, DOGE, is taken from the very crypto-meme culture that made Musk a populist hero.

But the world's richest man isn't just reshaping federal agencies. His social media platform, X, has become a megaphone for far-right ideology. He was seen most recently disparaging the United Kingdom’s prime minister over immigration policy.

Welcome to Trumpism 2.0, where Silicon Valley efficiency meets nationalist fervor, and rallies give way to retweets.

President Trump's first administration mainstreamed xenophobia, misogyny, white supremacy and toxic nationalism. His

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