A big part of the freakout you're seeing from Elon and the rest of the rightwing crowd is that they just ran a whole campaign against the "woke mind virus" and LGBTQ people in an electoral environment that should have favored them heavily--and they lost. /1
They thought they had a big popular majority for "anti-woke." They did not. They lost. Elon is going anti-woke, and going broke. All their rightwing startups are going belly-up. They lost a Senate seat, and without new illegal gerrymandering they would've lost the House. /2
Normies voted against them. Women were more furious about Roe than they expected. Young people voted big against them. They've lost the culture, and they've lost faith in electoral solutions to it. Who is gonna save them? Trump 2024? DeSantis 2024? Lol. /3
Tech is stacked in favor of the GOP: the Facebook groups/algorithms & YouTube algorithms favor them. They dominate AM radio & cable news. Twitter was the most balanced & responsible, so Elon bought it because the far right couldn't stomach even a hint of social responsibility. /4
But they still lost. They lost the popular vote in 2016. They lost in 2018. They lost in 2020. They lost embarrassingly in 2022. They lost in Brazil. Putin lost in Ukraine. White Christian Nationalism is failing. So they're taking desperate measures for control. /5