Trump and Musk on EVs, Climate

If you were tasked with identifying a trend in human civilization that extended from the Dark Ages into the 21st Century, you might choose the development and implementation of science.  Solutions in everything from medicine to mechanization to information technology have made our lives longer, healthier, and more productive. One could have drawn a straight line, or perhaps an exponential curve, through our progress over the past 1500 years.

Until the advent of Donald Trump, that is.  Now an entire political party is defining itself as anti-science in a number of arenas–certainly insofar as the climate is concerned.

Having said that, it now appears that Trump, formerly distinctly anti-EV,  has softened his position here.  Why? Perhaps because Elon Musk has agreed to fund the former president’s campaign to the tune of $45 million per month.

Isn’t this illegal, given election finance laws?  No.  This is what’s called a “super-PAC”; it’s how billionaires bypass our legal system.