I encourage you to read this entire section of Ken Paxton dodging his securities fraud indictment using the full weight of the power of the offie of TX AG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton#State_securities_fr...

Then, imagine someone spending $200 million aiming to ensure his election.

Not much you can respect in that someone doing such things.

And this is only 1 bullet out of dozens more like this in the last 8 years or so. Elon was very different in the late 2000s.

The white supremacy stuff

The 'pedo guy' stuff

I would have to say doge, that ill conceived "chainsaw" to the federal government that saved $14B, or 0.26% of the federal budget, but which according to the Lancet will result in as many as 14M additional deaths, including 4.5M children, by 2030.

Remember when xAI through Grok started generating child porn and non-consensual nudes? Remember when instead of turning it off, Elon praised the xAI team for the user growth and then paywalled image gen with the same broken guardrails behind an $8 a month X subscription?

He fired Tesla's PR department in 2020. They worked heroically to make him palatable to anyone who didn't look too deeply.