This is deeply, deeply silly to assert in 2025 as the right attempts to shut hobble the Ivy League, the NIH, prominent public policy law firms, green card holders writing op-eds, etc.
People are delusional about who the bad guys are. OP is right, the Elon hatred from the left is driven primarily by partisan politics after he supported Trump post assassination attempt. This was after years of the left mocking his success and attacking his companies.
He’s done more good for the US than almost anyone. People have a warped sense of values.
Indeed. You've evidenced a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the First Amendment, for example.
Obama pushed for EV credits which allows Tesla to make any money.
Obama pushed for Commercial Crew Contract which allowed SpaceX to get Gov. contracts.
And Trump is trying to undo that lol ...
Also there's like 300 million people in the USA. You could definitely find at least a dozen "left" serial killers. Doesn't make it representative of registered democrats.
Second of all, he did a literal nazi salute. There's nothing radical about wanting nothing to do with nazis
“The Left” bears sole responsibility for this? I don’t think so. If some of us find this man some kind of a Nazi and genuinely creepy, we have a named syndrome now?
Musk chose to visibly support causes I personally find repugnant. I’m not intolerant; he can do what he wants within the confines of the law. And surely given his much-vaunted genius, he must realize that symbols are important to people whether the actions they take on account of them are rational from a purely economic point of view.
The progress he made on electric vehicles is laudable. The real shame here is his lack of self-control to focus on his business.
You don't blame the man who did a Nazi salute on stage at a political rally?
If Elon had supported Biden and Harris (despite Biden's repeated sleights against Elon's companies), we probably wouldn't see the levels of Musk Derangement Syndrome we're seeing now.
Shame it all got so political. I don't blame Musk for that - he is just a CEO who is open about his politics. I blame the Left for being completely intolerant of anyone and any company that doesn't strictly adhere to their ideology.