If it walks, looks, swim and quocks like a duck, it is a duck.
The left predicted what this administration will do perfectly correctly. If anything, the left was completely correct about Republicans, conservatives, Musk and online edgelords for years.
The ones living in delusion were "centrists" extending unbelievably unprobable levels of fake benefetis of the doubt to the right.
And his track record is such that proximity to far right is evident not just in that salute.