Musk’s Millions Bought No Wins

High‑profile mega‑donor spending proved unable to blunt a nationwide repudiation of a party’s candidates and tactics in 2026. Even hundreds of millions deployed by a prominent billionaire failed to reverse local repudiations of extreme ads and racist messaging. — If true, 2026 shows diminishing returns to celebrity mega‑spending and suggests campaign outcomes are increasingly driven by local dynamics and candidate quality rather than top‑down cash injections.