Musk is outright supporting people who are openly white supremacists, go look through his recent posts on X.
I might be friends with a communist and have supported him in the past without being a communist or agreeing with communism myself.
"But my political opponents are actually bad and believe bad things" is no novel insight, every single person here will have read something like it a hundred times before.
(For reference: no, half the country doesn't believe these things)
Just as inaccurate as saying half the country thinks that massacring Jews is an "act of liberation", though there are obviously quite a few people who believe that and those are located on the left.
Yes, there are people on the fringes that believe those things...and both of these fringes are very dangerous. I happen to share the belief that the fringes on the right are more dangerous, and certainly presented the more immediate threat when Trump was in power. However, I understand those who believe that the left fringes are more dangerous, and they do have a case. Both fringes present an existential threat to our liberal democracies, as they both have repudiated those values, so maybe those differences are not really meaningful.
Left and right are not the problem. The fringes are. Both of them. And they feed off each other, so they can only be defeated together.
If you want to defeat the right fringe, you must defeat the left fringe. If you want to defeat the left fringe, you must defeat the right fringe.
The left fringe mostly seems to think gendered public toilets should be converted to single cubicles that anyone can use, similar to the toilet in your own home
There is one side so that argues for arming the, mostly right wing, mob, using government to punish political opponents, build what basically amounts to concentration camps for yet to be specified people, deport millions...