Elon Musk is an avatar of digital capitalism: He both embodies and defines it. Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. “You will be locked into a kind of cult of Elon and so ideologically bolted onto him that you’d never question his decisions.” Slobodian also touches on the ways Musk fused himself to the American economy—and our imagination—and how growing up in South Africa shaped Musk’s white supremacist worldview. Find More To The Story on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Pandora, or your favorite podcast app, and don’t forget to subscribe.