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I think all of that goes to making Musk even less relevant long term.
I still think that may be wishful thinking. If Trump dismisses Musk (which I don't think is as certain as some people believe), that would diminish Musk's direct global influence to some extent, but he'll still be in a position to cause a lot of aggro for Trump, which will spill over into the rest of the world. And he'll still be able to use Twitter to cause problems for politicians in any country where there's a significant MAGA/EDL-like movement. The banning and then unbanning of alt-right trolls on Twitter caused an exodus and return which made Twitter a hub linking those communities on Telegram and elsewhere, and those groups in any one country don't even have to be big for local Farage/Badenoch types to start making any issue he pushes into a talking point. It'd probably only be a thing in English speaking countries and Europe, but that's still a lot.
You'd hope so, but this may be optimistic. We're going to get unrestrained Trump now that the Republicans own congress, and he may have a lot of room for the lunatics he's gathered arond him to go fully mental. Even if he does fall out with Musk and wave him goodbye, there are more MAGA hats on Twitter than Truth Social and Musk will have their attention.