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Pleasant ProductionsWHEN DID THIS BECOME FAR RIGHT?Zanny Minton Beddoes (Editor-in-Chief, The Economist):“You support, not just the populist right, but the far right. In fact, very fringe parties in some countries.”Elon Musk:“No, I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely.”Beddoes:“You think is the normal person.”Musk:“Okay, yes. Literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years and these policies were completely normal. In fact, one of the tricks I think is quite funny is to take a speech from Obama and Hillary and go to someone on what I call the lunatic left and say, ‘What do you think of this speech by Trump?’ They say, ‘Oh, he’s the worst person ever.’ Actually, that was a speech by Obama. Or actually, that was a speech by Hillary.”Beddoes:“I agree that the center of gravity in this country has shifted. Certainly the Democratic Party shifted to the left, but that’s not what I’m talking about…”Musk interrupted:“It’s actually just normal people… And here are the principles. Tell me which of these sound terrible: that we should have secure borders, that we should have safe cities, that we should have sensible spending. Which of those three are far-right fringe? And I would like to admonish you and the media for the absurd characterization of the far right. It is false and misleading and nonsense. Please keep this part in.”Musk:“My political views are very centrist. They’re not far right… Calling it far right, I think, is an insult to history… It is an outrageous falsehood.”