In an interview recently he openly speculated about how long he'd be in prison if Kamala wins. It seems like he has a strong savior complex, and thinks he's the only one that can save humanity by establishing colonies on Mars. He phrases it as preserving "the light of consciousness." Can't reasonably do that from prison. With that perspective, for him, practically all means justify that end.

At more personal level, after one of his kids transitioned he publicly stated it was like that kid had "died." In his own words, he swore to kill the "woke mind virus."

"Recently" it came out that Elon Musk is a sexual predator. He exposed himself and tried to pay for sex by buying an employee a horse. Then his company paid 250,000 to keep the woman quiet.

Elon Musk has a transgender child and he didn't like it.

There's multiple reasons for him to become a conservative backer. Being known as a sexual predator is a big one. That's a huge flaw in more progressive corners, but something to rally behind as a nazi.

Why is Elon Musk acting like he’s a nazi?

Occam’s razor says, it’s because he’s a nazi.

Money.

Drugs.

His massive rightward swing seemed to correspond with when his drug use was reported in the media.

I think his drug use makes him feel like he can't be wrong and reinforced his conspiracy laden mindset... And that pushes him into fact-free conservative-Central.

Money.

Democrats are pressured by their base (see overwhelming majority of Americans) who wanna see the rich be taxed more and pay a fair share as well as delve into the very clear financial corruption in our government.

Musk, Trump, Bezos, and the other rich fucks like Peter Thiel or Miriam Adelson actively lose if this sort of policy is passed. Trump is literally the rich person candidate

It's money always is.

The world's richest man is supporting the guy that's gonna appoint him to some "efficiency" position that will let him squash any investigations into his businesses and will cut the amount of taxes he owes.

Not money. He doesn't GAF about that compared to his lust for power and also, very importantly, not going to prison for crimes already committed.

Elon is a far-right nutjob surrounded by sycophants.

Because Vivian Jenna Wilson transitioned.

It really is that simple.

Before that event Apartheid Manchild was a dick, but mostly of the poorly-socialized technonerd variety. Still a dick, but not perceived by most as being a threatening dick.

After that event, where he coined (to my knowledge) the phrase "the woke mind virus", he jumped deep into the MAGA swill.

Before that event he was kinda/sorta hailed as a "real world Tony Stark" but never really particularly accepted. People liked his products (well, let's be honest: product) and otherwise didn't give much of a shit about him.

After he went Full Metal MAGAt he became the object of worship and adoration of fellow MAGAts on Twitter (before he bought it, even), getting the uncritical acceptance he'd always craved and never really got.

And it turns out he wants to feel like he "belongs" more than he wants to sell shit.

Maybe this is overly generous, but I kind of feel like Elon genuinely believes he's a special genius who can "save" the world and usher in a nominally benevolent techno-oligarchy with him at the helm. So he supports trump because a) trump will let him do whatever he wants without regulation or enforcement, and b) Harris won't, and she might take a look at his accounting and government contracts.

Also maybe because Ketamine

Best way to enable your grifts while also evading jail time for being a con artist and pedophile.

Shitbirds of a feather, randy.

He basically lost his marbles after his daughter disowned him and Biden didn't invite him to some electric car event a few months after he was elected. I think his drug use also plays a big part. It's just the typical trajectory of someone who obtained a lot of power and then just shuts out all criticism and just thinks he's the smartest and knows everything best. History is full of examples and it never ends well.

I suspect Elon is in deep shit. Everything he has been doing with Tesla and Twitter has been blatant stock manipulation. The latest stunt is self driving taxis. I suspect he knows that the SEC have a big case on him that they will pursue if Harris wins.

He's eyeing the position in government, something the GOP was calling along the lines of Head of Technological Efficiency or whatever.

Once he's there, he can set some rules for his own companies and companies favourable to him, almost however he likes. He'd have more power if he starts a slapfight against foreign courts like he did in Brazil and lost last time.

He's gonna make more money

I think after breaking up with Grimes, he became really unstable. Similar to Kanye and how he broke up with Kim Kardashian.

Favors. And a cabinet position.

Ego. Ok also union busting but largely ego. Around the same time one of his children who happens to be trans from his first wife (who also publicly denounced him) publicly disowned him and his long term on again off again partner left him for a short lived fling with Chelsea Manning, a trans woman famous for going to prison for leaking human rights abuses by the military in the Iraq war. And around that time democrats started getting anti billionaire talking points going very mainstream. And so he began courting the right. He was already addicted to twitter and he found himself deep in the alt right pipeline.

to put it a better way, i would say he went down the right wing rabbit hole for last 4 or 5 years on twitter. but i would also argue that fundamentally he is just a horrible selfish human being, but disguised as that he was autistic or something.

It’s starting to look like he might just be a real dipshit.

Comes from Apartheid, tries to recreate it here

- Greed

- Lack of empathy

- Putin will kill him

Elon's supporters are much like Trumps and won't leave him. Many are financially tied to Elon. Elon can do what ever he wants and his supporters will follow. Trumps values and goals align very closely with Elon's. Elon would be much more like Trump if he had charisma.

Oligarchs benefit from a Trump administration and policies. Also, Trump promised him a cabinet position.

Much of Elon's fortune is from government programs and contracts. Trump already said he would do whatever his donors told him to if they got him elected. So Elon wants to get in to the executive and start messing around, probably gut most regulatory departments, except the ones that make other car companies buy EV credits from him, or ones that he can use to squeeze his competitors a bit, or give his companies advantages.

He's a dipshit.

Obviously he will award Tesla invite contracts and slash any tax and regulations.

Then again, Trump might just give him Texas.

I think he had a stroke or overdose from too many drugs a few years ago and now he's literally brain damaged. Would explain the total personality change he went through.