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Musk is perhaps the least partisan public figure I know of; everyone on the left seems to assume he's a right winger because he doesn't subscribe to left-wing orthodoxy, so he must be one of the Bad Other Guys.

TBH it seems clear to me that he is a closeted libertarian who can't safely express his views in full without alienating huge segments of his mostly-red autoworker base or his mostly-blue techworker base.

It's a difficult tightrope to walk in the current ongoing partisan culture brawl.



“Base”? What base? Nobody voted for him, he just has a lot of money. Do people have to like him too?


Tens of thousands of people choose to work for companies he runs. Without a large number of supporters, his companies would fail.


His "base" is Crypto Bros and conspiracy theorists if Twitter is any indicator.




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