Democrats take note: Elon Musk did NOT give a Hitler salute

It’s stuff like this that makes me worry that the Democrats, instead of taking stock of where we went wrong to lose the Presidential election, are simply doubling down on what made us lose. That involved, in part, excessive demonizing of Republicans, including calling them Nazis.  The public (save for blockheads and “progressive” Democrats) is not stupid enough, for example, to really think that Elon Musk was making a Hitler salute when he made a gesture from his heart to the world at Trump’s post-inauguration celebration at the Capital One arena. Here it is. It may be awkward, but even I’m not crazy enough to think he’s paying homage to Hitler or Mussolini.

This video, from CNN, is titled: WATCH: Elon Musk appears to give fascist salute during Trump inauguration celebration

Now watch it:

To anybody not infused with confirmation bias, what he appears to be doing is putting his hand on his heart and then extending it to the audience twice, explicitly saying, “My heart goes out to you.”  And that’s what he’s showing: extending his heart out.  It is not a Nazi salute, nor intended to be one.  Yes, you could hold a dark view that he knew what he was doing, but given that Musk appears to be somewhat “on the spectrum,” I don’t believe this is anything like a fascist or Nazi gesture.

Yet many miscreants say that’s exactly what he’s doing, like this one:

Although they may have realized they went off the rails and quickly qualified their initial assessment:

Someone even predicted in advance that the accusations would come:

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