Dinesh and Debbie D'Souza challenge Elon Musk to stand up for democracy and freedom

Conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza joined his wife Debbie in issuing a challenge to Tesla CEO Elon Musk to stand up for democracy and freedom. Musk is the richest man in the world, they say, and he should go beyond his quippy remarks on social media and actually take a stand.

"Debbie and I have been chatting and chuckling a little bit at the remarks of the richest man in the world. No, we're not talking about Jeff Bezos, if you've been keeping track, the richest man in the world is Elon Musk, SpaceX Tesla, this guy is just an unbelievable genius," Dinesh said. "And what an entrepreneur."

Dinesh noted Musk's recent conversation with the Wall Street Journal, where Musk said the entire Build Back Better bill should be scrapped, saying "I like all the things he said."

"First of all, he comes out against the infrastructure bill," Dinesh said. "And I love this. I mean, he goes, 'honestly, I would just can this whole bill don't pass it.' He would just delete it, delete!"

"So you see here, his libertarian streak," Dinesh says with Debbie. "He goes on to say, and this is the broader point, 'it does not make sense to take the job of capital allocation away from people who have demonstrated great skill', in other words from the entrepreneurial class, and give it to an entity, the government, that has demonstrated very poor skill."

Dinesh and Debbie speak out about the inefficacy of government and its inability to handle nuanced problems. Musk told the Wall Street Journal that the government is the "biggest corporation in the country," and that it has a "monopoly on violence."

"Look at when we go to the DMV," Debbie said, "or we go to the post office or you know, it's like 'oh my goodness, do we have all day to waste?' But this is how they are this is how they operate very inefficient[ly]. Unlike probably his facility is amazing. You know, I can only imagine and going to a place like the Apple Store, you know, you go right in right out. Boy, wouldn't that be something if government could work like that?"

"Now he makes some general points here about society," Dinesh said. "He says, you know, civilization is going to crumble if people don't have more children. In fact, he says, a lot of elites think there are too many people in the world. But he says, in fact, I can't emphasize this enough. There are not enough people. And then he goes on to point out this is one reason why he has six kids."

"There's a little bit of a larger role for him," Dinesh said. "It's almost like the stage is set. It's waiting for Elon, and it's, you know, we were calling this 'your turn Elon Musk.' And what do we mean by that?" He asked Debbie.

"We are tired of the billionaires on their side of the aisle, making all of these changes that are extremely disturbing," Debbie said. "For example, look at what Zuckerberg did with all those drop boxes that his money bought, or George Soros," they said, listing off the nations in which Soros has funded politicians according to his own political preferences.

"He wants to socialize the entire world," Debbie said, "and his money can do it. But you know what, Elon, you have more money than George."

Dinesh noted that Musk has said he wants to "stay out of politics," and does "a tweet here, a tweet there," but that "the country hangs in the balance."

Debbie said that Musk is the "only person in the world that can do anything about our politics in America," and they want him to use his money to do that.

"What we're really saying is we'd like him to be the anti-George Soros, and not even define himself in negative terms. I mean, Soros is a Lilliputian compared to what Elon can do. But right now Soros is a giant compared to what Elon is not doing. And and this is the point, that if you love America, and you love what America has made possible in your life, I think with that comes some moral responsibility to defend the principles that have made America America and to defend the principles that are made Elon Musk, Elon Musk."

Musk has taken aim at the Biden administration's bloated Build Back Better legislation, which he said should not be passed at all. After saying that the bill places an undue burden on the national debt, he wrote that it contains "accounting trickery," and that "nothing is more permanent than a 'temporary' government program."

He's called for age limits to hold elected office, noting that perhaps 69 is the right cut-off.

Musk, who also runs SpaceX, a private space exploration company that aims to travel to Mars, has said he would consider beginning a new university.