Elon Musk is almost impressively bad at politics

In roughly 6 months he has managed to nuke his popularity and relations with both parties establishments and bases, annihilated Tesla and all his companies PR and thus their stock price, and will now be footing the bill for an entire political party when it would have been infinitely more cost effective and effective effective to just donate at the margins to help his guys win Republican primaries.

He should have shadowed Thiel or Sorros for a week to see how its actually done. Dude had such a good hand as the worlds richest man, owner of Twitter, and SpaceX and Tesla being broadly popular across the partisan divide and fumbled it all massively.