Politics is about ideas and policies, but also characters and decorum.
The right has produced W. when it could have chosen McCain with the same policies
It produced Trump when it could have chosen Kasich, Cruz or Fiorina with the same policies. They'd still be in the WH btw.
It's only natural that people who are turned off by buffonery, instability, poor character, insults and plain stupidity try to distance themselves.
Nobody distanced themselves when the right fielded a balanced and well spoken individual such as Mitt Romney, and not even when it chose the late Bob Dole in 96.
It's more telling about the right , that it needs a loon in order to win.
I think it's clear that one party is concerned about globalization, while the other party wants to focus on the problems at home... and of course every rich person with large, globalized companies, will obviously side with the party that will let them hire cheap labor, and circumvent any laws that might benefit Americans at home. It really seems like the parties have flipped during that past two decades or so, and now the Democrats are the party of the rich, and so it is in the best interest of Google, Apple, MS, etc. to align with that. Elon seems to be one of the few, if not the only one going against the grain in this regard.
Wasn't W. a carrer politician? The prototypical one considering his dad was President?
Also with whom do you think a guy who has everything to lose such as a billionaire would side with? A career politician such as HRC/Biden or the dude saying that all Mexicans are rapists and he'd be able to shoot a man on 5th Avenue, doesn't rule out nuking North Korea, says that unlike Nixon he won't leave etc....?
Put Mitt Romney up against HRC/Biden and see the wind change. Billionaires despise instability and the kind of bragadoccio impulsive egomaniacs such as W. ,Trump (and Musk for that matter).
The US right is the only right-wing movement in the world which seemed immune from producing such profile of leaders. The weight of the legacy of being the party of Lincoln maybe the reason, but it seems it subdued.
> Elon seems to be one of the few, if not the only one going against the grain in this regard.
Musk companies took in approximately 25B in green subsidies payed for by flyover America, and all he managed to produce are gokarts for rich people which are still less frequently seen on American roads than real luxury brands such as Ferraris , Porsches and Lamborghinis.
The point is as you say, rich people want a stable government, especially when they can form good relations abroad with other countries, global markets and all that. This is why they all joined forces against Trump, because he jeopardized this, meanwhile many Americans want that to end so there are more resources at home. This is where the tension arises, and where a lot of people see rich people as siding with the establishment and globalization, and yes to a great extent Elon fits in this picture, although less so, at least from a public perspective.
Globalist politicians/leaders are setting the stage for Americans to dominate the social scene should they decide to WFH or retire in Mexico, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Philippines...and actually not be hated when they go there due to the crazy rethoric of the POTUS. Those places as they are today just aren't safe enough, meaning health-wise and from the standpoint of political stability.
Politicians who want to spend money at home...they just mean NYC, LA, Chicago, SF..places where their have their hands all over the place.
Their definition of spending money at home is the 20+ billions Hudson Yards development or the huge tax breaks given to the L.A. Rams for their 6.3B new stadium which will be used 8 Sundays per year.
until one geek from south africa came to america and tried to make that scifi future a reality
nerds go gaga over their savior.
news at 11.
Hopefully you weren't hoping for something profound. There are more rational reasons to like and dislike people, but you were asking about the cultish behavior.
There’s literally no one who has done more for decarbonization and reliance on fossil fuels in the world.
God I wish he’d shut up and get off twitter.