I've been meaning to write a post on "Why does the Left hate Elon Musk?"
I would say that it's because he changed from a centre-left Democrat to a Trump supporter. So, word: Trump.
Before that, the Left loved Elon. A major player in climate change, with his Electric Vehicles and Solar City.
Then, he says he'll support Trump in 2024, and all that goes. They hate Elon. Just as they hate Trump.
The reason why he migrated to support Trump, is that he thinks that reducing the national debt is an existential issue. Neither side has been good with this, but the Trump admin tried harder. They did. With DOGE, which was to tackle Waste, Fraud and Abuse. Which sent the left into paroxysms. Because, it turns out, the whole of the NGO, the non-profit, the charity sector is one big boondoggle to wash money for Democrats. But that's another story.
Then there's a twist I heard about the other day from the likes of the creaky centenarian Democrat Strategist, James Carville, that they think Elon "stole the 2024 election" for Trump. Which is not true, because the swing states that Trump won, the 7 balance states, had zero input from Elon. What's more, the Dems spent way more money than the Reps, 1.5 billion to around 800 million. So there's that.
Now there's another reason, by the insightful Cathie Wood, of Ark Invest.
Namely that the Left hate that Elon is actually doing something for Climate Change. And if he manages to solve it, then there's nothing more for them to campaign on. A new twist on the stuff relating to NGOs. That they don't want to solve the problems they've been set up to tackle. For then the money flow stops. They have to stop feeding at the trough.
Cathie Wood just named the contradiction nobody wants to touch.
She compared Elon Musk to Thomas Edison.
Not as praise. As a pattern.
Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”
The media sees a reckless billionaire setting fires.
Wood sees the only person in the room building anything at all.
The gap between those two readings tells you everything about who controls the narrative.
Start with Tesla.
Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”
He built the exact machine environmentalists spent thirty years begging for.
Didn’t lobby for it. Didn’t write a whitepaper. Built it.
Forced every major automaker on Earth to abandon the combustion engine.
Then the second he won, the same movement made him the enemy.
Because the establishment never wanted the problem solved. They wanted the problem funded. And those are two very different things.
A solved problem kills the committee. Kills the nonprofit. Kills the careers built on managing the crisis instead of ending it.
Musk ended it. And they have never forgiven him.
SpaceX looks like an escape hatch if you never read past the headline.
Which is exactly what the press counts on.
Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”
Mars was never the exit.
It is the lab.
Build under conditions so brutal that every breakthrough changes what is possible back home.
You learn to keep a human alive in a frozen irradiated vacuum.
Fixing an energy grid on a temperate planet becomes arithmetic.
He is not running from the cradle.
He is stress-testing the technology that preserves it.
But that story doesn’t sell ads. Doesn’t move polling numbers. So they bury it under hit pieces and congressional theater and call it journalism.
Most people who reach his level stop building and start protecting what they have.
They buy senators. They buy newspapers. They buy silence.
Musk keeps picking the hardest unsolved problems on the planet and running straight at them.
That is what terrifies the establishment.
Not that he might fail.
That he might succeed without them. Without their funding. Without their approval. Without anything they can hold over his head.
A man they cannot buy is a man they cannot control.
So they do the only thing they have left.
They send the media after him.
Every legacy outlet runs the same playbook. Strip the context. Clip the quote. Frame the motive. Let the algorithm do the rest.
It has worked on every builder before him.
It will not work on this one.
They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.
He will spend his building the thing that saves them anyway.
The stones always come from inside the walls. From Dustin.
