The effort to turn Elon Musk into Adolf Hitler is gaining traction. The Washington Post ran a big article about Musk’s arm movements at Monday’s rally. They even found an “expert” — a history professor who studies fascism — to say, “That was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.”
 
Of course, it’s totally absurd. Many conservatives reacted to this, just as Elon Musk did, by dismissing it. “The left isn’t learning anything,” they say. “They tried this against Trump, and it didn’t work.”
 
Here’s what I think our conservative friends are missing. They’re looking at the wrong thing to judge whether it “works” or not. Unhinged individuals tried to kill Donald Trump twice. One sick leftist tried to kill Justice Kavanaugh.
 
This rhetoric feeds into the deranged minds of people who are already indoctrinated into neo-Marxism. When the left says, “Trump is a Nazi” or “Musk is a Nazi,” they are creating a mood for more domestic terrorism, more political violence, and more assassination attempts.
 
But just in case you or any of your friends have any doubts about Musk, let me put your mind at ease.
 
The Anti-Defamation League said that Musk “made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute.”
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also came to Musk’s defense. In a social media post, Netanyahu wrote:
 
“Elon Musk is being falsely smeared. Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes… I thank him for this.”
 
I think we can trust the prime minister of the Jewish state to know what Nazism looks like.