{"id":15183,"date":"2024-10-29T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15183"},"modified":"2024-10-29T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:39:42","slug":"the-banality-of-elon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15183","title":{"rendered":"The banality of Elon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Musk\u2019s claim that the undocumented population in swing states is surging, sourced to unspecified \u201cgovernment data,\u201d appears false: Data from both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ohss.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-06\/2024_0418_ohss_estimates-of-the-unauthorized-immigrant-population-residing-in-the-united-states-january-2018%25E2%2580%2593january-2022.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Homeland Security<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/07\/SR_24.07.22_unauthorized-immigrants_table-2.xlsx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center<\/a>&nbsp;debunks Musk\u2019s claim of a Biden-era surge in undocumented immigrants to swing states. (In a few swing states, undocumented populations have shrunk, whereas in others, they\u2019ve increased slightly or been stagnant.) Migrants aren\u2019t being \u201cput\u201d in those states by anyone, let alone Democrats \u2014 that\u2019s not how undocumented migration works. Nor is there any evidence Harris has a viable plan to grant them all citizenship in four years or proof they\u2019d all vote for Democrats forever once given the franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Really, what Musk is doing is taking a hoary old white nationalist trope \u2014 the \u201cGreat Replacement\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/04\/tucker-carlson-great-replacement-white-supremacist-immigration-fox-news-racism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mainstreamed<\/a>&nbsp;by X\u2019s most prominent talk show host, Tucker Carlson \u2014 and reiterating it with dubious swing-state demographic data.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/379185\/elon-musk-trump-pennsylvania-ideas-boring\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/379185\/elon-musk-trump-pennsylvania-ideas-boring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Musk\u2019s claim that the undocumented population in swing states is surging, sourced to unspecified \u201cgovernment data,\u201d appears false: Data from both Homeland Security and Pew Research Center debunks Musk\u2019s claim of a Biden-era surge in undocumented immigrants to swing states. (In a few swing states, undocumented populations have shrunk, whereas in others, they\u2019ve increased slightly or been stagnant.) Migrants aren\u2019t being \u201cput\u201d in those states by anyone, let alone Democrats \u2014 that\u2019s not how undocumented migration works. Nor is there any evidence Harris has a viable plan to grant them all citizenship in four years or proof they\u2019d all vote for Democrats forever once given the franchise.<br \/>\nReally, what Musk is doing is taking a hoary old white nationalist trope \u2014 the \u201cGreat Replacement\u201d mainstreamed by X\u2019s most prominent talk show host, Tucker Carlson \u2014 and reiterating it with dubious swing-state demographic data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/379185\/elon-musk-trump-pennsylvania-ideas-boring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1598,26,493,25,1147],"class_list":["post-15183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-elon-musk","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-white-nationalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15184,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions\/15184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}