He has scorned organized labor, mocked political correctness and espoused small government – so the deluge of tweets from conservatives congratulating Elon Musk on his move to buy Twitter was hardly a surprise.
Baruch Labunski, an Internet marketing expert and web consultancy CEO, says that, amid the sheer volume of “contradictory evidence”, it’s safest to describe Musk’s politics as “pragmatic” – a “fundamentally self-interested” celebrity.