Because of Musk's alignment with the 'Christian' right which has tight links with the brains trust behind Farage - the European Research Group (with its religion well hidden to outsiders - and invisible to journalists). This is a global Christo-Fascist project, little diff. at this point between the governments of about 20 nations.

Transnational political platforming, intervention, and support of extremists terrorists to takeover social democracies and replace them the ideological, totalitarian regimes friendly to North Korea, China, and Russia by twisting populist ethno-nationalist sentiment into essentially absolute power for a small subset of the ultra rich. The fundamental, hubristic miscalculation is that it's impossible to fool all of the people all of the time.

You could ask the same thing about HN in general. There’s an interest in the UK that’s disproportionate to the country’s global influence or to the number of British HNers. As best I can understand, a particular negative outlook on the UK has become central to certain currents of right wing thought in the US. I suppose it’s convenient to paint a one-sided picture of the UK for the purposes of political rhetoric, as most of the audience won’t have the first hand knowledge required to evaluate it critically.

Same reason he does anything, he sees opporuntity (to make more money and keep more of it)

I think that he wrongly believes, because of his self-created social media bubble, that there's a like-minded majority of people everywhere who want white people back on top of a hierarchy, and if he can just tip things a little bit he can make it happen and he be a great hero for leading it.

I hate to point to people's family but since he has seemingly doubled down on their views I think it's ok to point out his grandparents were pro-Nazi in Canada and moved to South Africa BECAUSE OF apartheid. It's not surprising if he was raised with some strange extreme views