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Musk reacts to NYT columnist calling for ‘overthrow’ of the Constitution

September 3, 2024 | | Print Article

The Constitution has always been the ultimate goal of the progressive left, a key obstacle that prevents them from “fundamentally transforming” America into something more to their liking and they are now getting bold enough to say it.

With polling beginning to consistently suggest that newly installed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris may win the popular vote in November but fall short to Republican nominee Donald Trump as a result of the Electoral College, the radical left has set their sites on the Constitution for establishing a system that prevents a “democratic mob” from dictating the outcome of presidential elections via the popular vote.

Enter the New York Times, which drew the scorn of billionaire Elon Musk when it ran a piece titled, “The Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?”

Stating the obvious, Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns, “They want to overthrow The Constitution.”

The subtitle stated, “One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document.”

The author, Times’ book critic Jennifer Szalai,  proclaimed that the Constitution “is in trouble” and that Trump “owes his political ascent” to the founding document — see the Electoral College.

“Americans have long assumed that the Constitution could save us; a growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it,” she would eventually conclude, after noting that it’s “famously difficult to amend.”

Surely not by accident, the Los Angeles Times recently ran an op-ed titled, “We’re living under a flawed Constitution. Let’s start fresh and rewrite it.”

“No matter the outcome of the November elections, it is urgent that there be a widespread recognition that American democracy is in danger and that reforms are essential. No form of government lasts forever, and it would be foolhardy to believe that the United States cannot fall prey to the forces that have ended democracies in many other countries,” wrote Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law.

“Although the causes are complex, many of today’s problems can be traced back to choices made in drafting the Constitution, choices that are increasingly haunting us. After 200 years, it is time to begin thinking of drafting a new Constitution to create a more effective, more democratic government,” he added.

Make no mistake, opening the Constitution to radical changes in today’s toxic political atmosphere, which includes a biased, wholly dishonest media, would be the end of the United States of America founded in 1776.

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story from X, beginning with Elon Musk himself:

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