It's not bizarre. What Elon and his group want is a "CEO for America" someone who has complete and total control and the ability to pass any law and fire anyone at any moment. Government itself is in the way of that goal.
They want that, but there's a huge number of ordinary Americans who've always been against the Federal government for seemingly no gain to themselves. For years. All the John Birch/2nd amendment types.
Co-opting a movement for your own gain is a tried and true dictator play. I don't think it matters what people want as long as Elon can use the mob for his own gain.