Just incredible how Musk has managed to alienate almost every demographic in just a few short years.
I've said before that Musk was the perfect CEO to run a
startup in the
auto and space industries. He's bad at mature companies. I've wanted him out as CEO of Tesla since he did the "no lidar! no IR sensors! just cameras and ai!" bit.
As a liberal, before 2020 he was a minimally acceptable billionaire. He actually risked his own money to invest in high-risk, high-payoff projects like EVs and cheap rockets like the Objectivists say all rich people do. (No, he wouldn't have been bankrupt if SpaceX had failed, but he's be stuck at hundred-millionaire poor boy). I could mostly ignore his politics as long as he was just another glibertarian blowhard. Then he went down the radicalization pipeline to Qanon.
One thing few people noticed was that the Christian Nationalists started hating him almost immediately after the inauguration. Musk was gleefully doing everything on the oligarch's checklist, but the Christian Nationalists were getting very little of what they thought Trump had promised them. Just in random doomscrolling I came across two different CN influencers who were matching Musk to the prophecies of Revelations.
