> he’s just on the other side of the culture war divide now (I.e the Republican side) so he’s now considered shameful in many parts. That's a defensive project

> he’s just on the other side of the culture war divide now (I.e the Republican side) so he’s now considered shameful in many parts. That's a defensive projection from both Musk and Republicans to incite his "new side" to arms and protect him implicitly from any criticism whether it's about labour rights or sexual harassment. Maybe it's 4D chess to get the Cybertruck to be popular with the right wing. But for most of us who are progressive and environmental, we have been pushing back against his ego and authoritarianism for years - worried that he is sabotaging his stated cause more than he is helping it. For me the last straw was The Boring Company. I was still All In on Musk as a real-life Tony Stark who would make humanity interplanetary and solve the computer-brain barrier all the way up to Neuralink. Even Hyperloop seemed compelling if he could execute on it and seemed like it might be a clever hack to work around American resistance to high-speed rail. The Boring Company revealed to me the self-aggrandizing fraud that he is.