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It all started when Tesla workers tried to unionise in 2017. Musk fiercely pushed back against the effort to unionise, and won. Today, Tesla is the only un-unionized auto manufacturer in the US.

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He can freely pass between the 2 parties in the US because he's the class they both serve. He had some surface level understanding of issues that he thought of as "from the left" that he vaguely nodded towards when it suited him. But those were as shallow as he is, so he "left" The Dems or w/e.

Musk gained a reputation as a fearsome union buster. Recently, the UAW brought federal labour charges against him over his anti union comments. The ITUC singled out Tesla as one of six companies “that benefit… by continuing to violate trade union and human rights.” www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/08/...

cnbc.comUAW hits Musk, Trump with federal labor charges over union-busting commentsDuring Donald Trump and Elon Musk's two-hour conversation on X, the former president complimented the Tesla CEO on firing workers who wanted to strike.

Naturally his battles with organised labour drove him into the arms of the right. As he became closer to right wing figures in the US and around the world, he became more convinced by their arguments on migration. Why?

Because every smart right winger in the world knows that neoliberal economics don’t win elections. Their ultimate aim is corporate welfare for big business, tax cuts for the rich, and the crushing of unionists and protestors. But they can’t say that out loud.

The only way the right can win state power is to acknowledge the deep suffering that has been created by decades of rising inequality, and blame this suffering on some ‘other’ - migrants, criminals, deviants etc. That othering is, of course, the prerequisite for fascism.