The reason people think Musk has gone mask-off for flipping politically left-right is because my strong suspicions are that really he is pretty centrist with some situational nuance around it.

He has some lefty care morality positions, like UBI which contrasts with his libertarian views.

If he thinks the left is going too far he jumps right, if he thinks the right is going too far or just flat wrong about something urgent and important he will jump left hard again, make no mistake.

He has at varying times supported climate change, maga, UBI, vocally anti Big Beautiful Bill, calling Trump involved with Epstein.... that is quite the mix, and the only one of these positions that actually benefitted him personally/financially was climate change.

All his other opinions ultimately hurt him a lot more than it benefitted him. It's not stupidity that makes him support causes that hurts him financially. It's because he thinks it's for the greater good.

Was buying twitter financially profitable? It may eventually be. But he tried to back out once he saw just how rotten a deal financially it will turn out for him!

A complex guy. Somewhat wings it when the way forward isn't clear.

“Twitter is biased. Let's buy Twitter. Oh sht, it's gonna cost me HOW MUCH? And it's profit potential is only THIS? Uhm, let's cancel the deal, was it really binding?“