Years ago when he acquired a cult of personality and could do no wrong, I knew it was going to swing the other way.

I never subscribed to either view. He's a brilliant engineer and a talented businessman with some apparently significant personality flaws or emotional regulation issues. In other words he's human.

The problem with alot of people isn't the emotional regulation; it's the way he runs his businesses. He embraces a fake-it-till-you make it mindset to a huge degree. He's done so many things that are either fraud, near-fraud, or completely dishonest that it makes it impossible to support someone like that in his position.

It isn't very interesting. Elon is an attention seeking narcissist. He looks for it. When he runs around Twitter calling people paedophiles he's going to have opinions formed about him. What other outcome would you expect?

Elon's latest pronouncement is that Americans are complacent and entitled, especially Californians and New Yorkers. It's not exactly a roadmap to having people think highly of him.

People tend to not like to think of others in shades of grey, especially of celebrities.

It's what leads to cult of personality or deep hatred.