He has made lots of the people who work for him very very very very rich.

He has followers -- takes all kinds, eh?

That said, I'm going to guess that some feel like it's the best choice they have -- the devil they know.

Reusable rockets, paralysed people controlling things with their minds, aligned models that treat human life equally regardless of race, these are all important things. What have you done?

Here is a test - go find a current Trump supporter IRL and let him know what you think about him. I bet you will feel like an asshole, especially in a social setting for being cringe as fuck.

At the end of the day, most people have internal thoughts about stuff, and some post those thoughts on the internet, but in the real world, they subconsciously still believe that none of this stuff really matters. Its the same for a lot of people that work for Tesla/Space X and so on. The appeal of being part of that, working on novel stuff, is a lot more present than any morality associated with something that most people are disconnected with on a day to day level.

This is why all the hate at the current administration and people like Musk is very misdirected. Until we can turn that hate inward and start truly hating each other and standing up for morals with more than just words, the cycle is going to repeat until we either all become mindless wage slaves or some man made apocalypse happens.

(Shrug) He built some awesome companies that did some awesome things. That inspired people, especially at a time when most job opportunities in tech seemed to revolve around selling ads.

Then he went off the deep end, seemingly around the time when the guy in Thailand insulted his submarine idea. It became clear that he can control trillion-dollar companies but not himself. And, well, life's too short to spend it working for Nazis, nutcases, or both.