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Elon Musk arrives for US President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon's "tech-bro Maoism" is nothing new

Mark Lawrence Schrad
Donald Trump and Mao Zedong (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump: The American Chairman Mao

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Anti-abortion protesters rally near a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia, Friday, May 10, 2019. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Alabama: Abortion worse than Holocaust

Chauncey DeVega
Chinese communist party leader Mao Tse-Tung, left, and U.S. President Richard Nixon shake hands as they meet, Feb. 21, 1972. (AP)

Is this "Nixon in China"? Absolutely not

Matthew Rozsa
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Xi Jinping (Getty/Lintao Zhang)

China's Xi Jinping as esteemed as Mao

Matthew Rozsa
In this photo taken Monday, May 2, 2016, an enormous statue of Mao Zedong looms over the No. 1 Tractor Factory in Luoyang in central China's Henan province. Fifty years after Mao unleashed the decade-long Cultural Revolution to reassert his authority and revive his radical communist agenda, the spirit of modern China's founder still exerts a powerful pull. Millions of people were persecuted, publicly humiliated, beaten or killed during the upheaval, as zealous factionalism metastasized countrywide, tearing apart Chinese society at a most basic level. () (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Jia-Chen Fu - The Conversation
A man walks past a billboard with the U.S. currency displayed on its outside a bank in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016. (AP)

Penelope B. Prime - The Conversation
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