Elon Musk: The Term ‘Far-Right’ Is Just Propaganda

Elon Musk: The term ‘far-right’ is just propaganda.

“What we've seen in the media is defining things that used to be centrist to center-left, such as sensible immigration policy, as somehow far-right, which is absurd and false because, really, far-right should refer to extremely fascist situations.
Far-right should refer to electing regimes that want to launch wars or genocides or something like that. Far-right is not supposed to mean a sensible immigration policy.

If you took speeches from politicians that were center-left and just go take their speeches from 10, 15 years ago, they were literally saying the same thing. So what we've seen is really a drift left, where a lot of governments actually are far-left but think they are centrist or think they are merely left or centrist, but they are actually far-left compared to what the left was even 10 or 15 years ago.

You can take speeches that Obama or Hillary Clinton gave about immigration and they sound identical to President Trump. And that's just as of 10, 15 years ago, not that long ago. So I think what we've seen is a redefinition of what is right and left, but an inaccurate redefinition. And frankly, it's just propaganda because people generally have the association that, well, anything far-right must be bad. Then we're going to label things that are common sense far-right, which is absurd.”

WELT Economic Summit, January 28, 2025