Liz Peek Thinks Elon Musk Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize:
Ruth Ben-Ghiat believes Musk is leading a private wealth and energy industry coup against US democracy.
Tesla and Space-X CEO Elon Musk dismissed media scrutiny over the above arm gesture pictured at a post-inauguration rally for President-elect Donald Trump on January 21st, 2025. The photo is courtesy of REUTERS.
Given the breakneck speed of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the US federal “administrative state” over the past three weeks, you might have overlooked Liz Peek’s January 31st nationally syndicated opinion piece in which she advocated for Elon Musk to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
After reading the above sentence, your first question will likely be, “Did Liz Peek write a satirical opinion column?” Unfortunately, you would be mistaken, as the column is disturbingly serious–just like the columnist is a real person.
That will inevitably lead you to ask two more direct follow-up questions: “Who is Liz Peek, and why does her opinion matter?” Liz Peek is an American business analyst and political commentator who previously worked for Wertheim & Company, a major oil industry investment firm. She frequently appears on Fox News as a political pundit.
Mrs. Peek writes columns designed explicitly for mass publication across other news and social media platforms like Yahoo News, The Wall Street Journal, and Nexstar Media.
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Considering Liz Peek’s widely publicized appearances on cable news and in mainstream national publications, it is reasonable to conclude that her opinions reflect the current political beliefs of corporate energy company CEOs, investment bankers, and their media representatives.
Therefore, your logical deduction should be that corporate America supports President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s dual efforts to undermine the US Constitutional provisions that guarantee three co-equal branches of the US government and the principle of “Separation of Powers.”
Mrs. Peek promotes Elon Musk through the prism of his mainstream media mythology. She dutifully portrays Musk as the visionary entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX - and a champion of “free speech” after his 2022 $44 billion hostile takeover of the Twitter/X social media platform.
So, you will not be surprised that Liz Peek does not even mention the effect Mr. Musk’s “DOGE”-influenced hostile takeover of the US federal bureaucracy is having on basic government operations and the nation’s public health infrastructure.
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Seneca Project PAC Representative Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who teaches history and Italian studies at New York University, discussed the constitutional crisis President Trump and billionaire CEO Elon Musk are creating for the US on MSNBC last week. The video clip is courtesy of The Seneca Project.
So far, President Trump and Elon Musk have started implementing the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” vision for the US public health bureaucracy by removing news and media communications from the DHHS and its sub-agencies following Trump’s inauguration.
The “radio silence” imposed upon the DHHS by Trump and Musk exacerbated a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas. The Kansas TB outbreak is already classified as the largest in US history.
If you are shocked by Trump and Musk’s swift dismantling of America’s federal bureaucracy and awed by the lack of opposition coming from the nation’s socially elitist political opposition, you are not alone.
Thankfully, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, one of the intelligentsia’s favorite academic historians, is “sounding the alarm” about Trump and Musk’s actions while also expressing her astonishment at the new administration’s swift and politically aggressive executive actions.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an American professor of history and political commentator specializing in fascism and authoritarian leaders.
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This is part two of Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s discussion of the constitutional crisis President Trump and billionaire CEO Elon Musk are creating for the US on MSNBC last week. The video clip is courtesy of The Seneca Project.
Ben-Ghiat, who also teaches Italian studies at New York University, discusses the constitutional crisis with the most strikingly immediate language from any member of America’s academic elite.
While representing the new female-led Seneca Project PAC during a recent national news appearance on MSNBC, Ms. Ben-Ghiat used direct language to describe what she believes Elon Musk is doing to America. “The speed is very unusual in my study of authoritarian states,” she explained. “It’s only really after a coup that you see such speed, such an obsessive haste to purge a bureaucracy so quickly,” Ben-Ghiat continued.
Concerning President Trump’s placement of Mr. Musk in control of the US federal bureaucracy, Ben-Ghiat said, “I don’t have another reference point for a private individual coming in–infiltrating–trying to turn government to the benefit of his businesses and locking out federal employees.”
“I’m a historian of coups, and I would also use that word. So, we’re in a real emergency situation for our democracy,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat concluded.