The right comes for one of its own on the issue of 'family values'

After a conservative influencer alleged that she was the mother of Elon Musk’s 13th child, conservatives took to X — Musk's own social media platform — to deride him. Musk, who is leading an effort to make dramatic cuts of the federal government, is father to at least 12 children with at least three — or apparently four — women. He has been parading some of them around the White House recently.

Last week, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair posted on X that she has a 5-month-old baby whose father is Elon Musk. “I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child’s privacy and safety,” she wrote, but she learned that the tabloids were planning on revealing the birth.

“Perhaps more surprising than her claim (which Musk hasn’t directly commented on), however, was the opprobrium it generated — not from Musk’s sworn enemies among Democrats, but from his newfound allies on the right,” Derek Robertson writes at Politico.

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“I strongly recommend having a baby daddy who lives in your house, so that you don’t have to tweet him,” conservative commentator Bethany Mandel posted on X. St. Clair had replied to Musk that she had been trying to contact him.

“Much of conservatism is filled with godless, hypocrites who couldn’t care less about conserving traditional family values. It way past time we come to grips with that fact & do our part to not platform, promote and celebrate those that just use conservative values for their own gain,” Jon Root, sports announcer and former Turning Point USA employee, posted on X. “Pray for Ashley St. Clair & Elon Musk’s child. Pray for his parent’s repentance.”

“The 8 billion people alive today simply don’t matter — genocide and wars are mere ripples, as long as some survive, and Musk is the one that needs to survive,” Alexander Thomas, researcher at the University of East London, explained. “He’s the one that needs to pass on the baton of civilization and create this superior future.”

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Compact Magazine editor Matthew Schmitz, a conservative, posted on X that “Elon embodies the values of a genetic-determinist right that celebrates people with ‘good genes’ having children under any circumstances. This vision of reproduction is sharply opposed to that of a more culturist right that insists on the importance of marriage and monogamy.”

“Interestingly,” he continued, “the quasi-eugenic ideas you find on parts of the right are now being used to justify behaviors once associated exclusively with lower-class social pathology. According to this view, when Elon Musk impregnates woman after woman with no intention of giving the children a stable family, that’s an expression of his great genetics. But when a lower-class man does the exact same thing, it’s a patent sign of his bad genes.”

“When it comes to Washington politics and the Republican Party,” Robertson writes, “less important here are the internecine (and often deeply bizarre) arguments over the transhumanist future than how it differs from that imagined by the rest of the conservative coalition.”

In 2020, Musk announced his new baby in the replies to an article about Tesla.

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