“Elon Musk could destroy the Federal Government of the United States”

The writer and professor of political history of Eastern of the East at the University of Yale, Timothy Snyder has assured that Elon Musk “could destroy the Federal Government of the United States” because for him, that means freedom.

“The real test, in my opinion, is not so much Trump. It’s Musk. Trump has terrible policies and will make us poor and enemies of our friends. But it will not destroy the federal government (…) Right now, while we are talking here, Musk is stealing the data of each American citizen and trying to find ways to execute the federal government digitally, without laws, without council, without legal basis“Snyder said on Tuesday in the presentation of his book ‘On La Libertad’ (Gettenberg Galaxy, February 2025) at the Rafael del Pino Foundation in Madrid.

Through the lines of ‘About freedom’whose subtitle is ‘for those who want to be free’, Snyder identifies practices and attitudes, mental habits, which will design a government in which society and future generations “can prosper.”

“It is a book for leaders who want their citizens to prosper, instead of leaders who want their citizens suffer“Snyder said, who stressed that freedom is not so much” freedom of “but” freedom for “.

The book exposes in five chapters in a philosophical way Five type of freedom (sovereignty, unpredictability, mobility, objectivity y Solidarity); Understood freedom as value makes all other values ​​possible.

Published now in Spanish, the book was published in English in September 2024, before the US elections, although the author already knew that Donald Trump and Kamala Harris would be the candidates when he just row the book.

“I do not want to say that the book goes on everything that is currently happening in detail, but it is an attempt, among other things, to describe what would be an unpredictability of the 21st centurywhere the government is deactivated, technology controls everything, the environment is ignored, which, unfortunately, is the type of regime they are trying to install in the United States at this time, “he said.

“I think that freedom is the value of values, it is the most important and central idea in our policy. And we can’t do anything without her. And when we give it the word (to the right or extreme right), we also give the concept (…) very often start from the position ‘I against the Government’ and from that position it is very easy to change to ‘me against me Other people, I against bureaucrats against migrants, “Snyder said, who pointed out that this thought can lead to” hate other people. ”

“The policy of us and them, and of course the policy of us and them is fascism. And this is exactly what Elon Musk and many of those libertarians from Silicon Valley have done“, Snyder, who bets, as highlighted in the book, for” a policy of abundance, generosity and grace. ”