You don’t have to try and spend billions of dollars to become a fan of conservatives. All you have to do is publicly push back against leftist views. That’s all it takes to be conservative in our culture. In a Political Science lens, Conservatives aren’t some homogeneous group who share the same politics. They are anyone who opposes the left. It’s a broad spectrum.

Musk is not fully trusted by either side. He says a lot of things that traditional conservatives (especially those who don’t buy into climate change) oppose.

The left ideology is the dominant force in pop culture, and those views are in vogue. He’s speaking out against some of those things and that’s getting him a lot of attention.