It is impossible for someone to have his level of wealth, his lifestyle, and not begin to exhibit signs of mental illness. First, the wealth. Nothing has value to him. Why would it? Very few things have carry a dollar amount he can’t swallow. Seriously, we’re talking like aircraft carriers!

Second, look at the other triple-digit billionaires. They’re focused on what they do. Bezos runs Amazon and all the stuff it does. Schmuck runs Meta and all that. Thiel is pretty focused on Palatir. Meanwhile Musk “runs” how many companies? And people legit believe that he’s actually running them. Professional journalists will say he’s a super genius while reporting on the absolute bat-shit stuff he does and says. Oh, and don’t get me started on all the times he’s publicly bragged working his employees to the bone as if that’s a sign of good leadership! All of this is to say, he’s believing his own press.

He outright said it. I can’t find the tweet just now, it was from quite a while back. But essentially, he said the left was mean to him so he went all in on conservatism. I think it was not so much “mean” as “willing to call him out for obvious lies and weird nonsense” like the time he called a guy who rescued children from a cave a pedophile. I also don’t think he was really as left as he claimed to begin with, he was just following what seemed to be the trend to get people to like him.

When you get called out, you can learn from it or you can double down. He doubled down harder than anyone in history, and somehow it has yet to come back and bite him like it would most. Here’s hoping it does sooner than later.