> You have merely cherry-picked some examples of cancel culture where people were fired for merely trivial things.

I was explicitly noting that many cases of cancellation are unjust. Giving examples is appropriate.

> rather whether his supporters (for lack of a better term) are hypocrites based on positions they have previously staked out.

I’m sure some are. Any person with a large following will have many people who are hypocrites. A huge swath of the general population is hypocritical, so I would expect some hypocrites among Musk’s followers.

I don’t know how you could credibly argue that his supporters in general are hypocritical in a way which is independent from whether or not he is.