Elon's global takeover: Can one billionaire dismantle democracy? We'll find out

Elon Musk's feud with Steve Bannon is best understood as 50 percent theater, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: It distracts media attention from more substantive areas of the dire Trump Reloaded agenda.

But he says the other 50 percent of the MAGA realm’s internal conflict reflects genuine and serious disagreement over ideological visions and political outcomes.

Both men see possibility of a rising far-right tide that will sweep away the liberal-democratic world order.

Elon Musk has held high-profile kissyface photo-ops with French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni .

Peter Bergen : Musk perceives the propaganda value of such semiotics in a way Steve Bannon absolutely does not.

He says the Musk-Bannon split is not going to expose the fatal flaws of the Trumpian coalition and bring the whole edifice crashing down.

Žižek argues that Trump ’s “impossible coalition” of “feudal masters” and “exploited workers” cannot stand.

Without forging new alliances, “the left will simply disappear from the map,” he writes.

As long as Donald Trump is with us, his followers will willingly swallow all contradictions.