Elon Musk used to be a popular guy, believe it or not, even in California. He, and his companies, Tesla and Space X, revolutionized Battery Electric Vehicles and the idea of smart, reusable rockets and a rocket thrusted landing capsule (the Dragon). But even then, Elon Musk was a narcissist with a huge ego. One of his biggest frauds then was the Hyper Loop (it was never realistic and flawed), which is basically a more grandiose bullet train. At least he was a liberal then and had his businesses in California.
But slowly he became crazy. He called the rescuer of the Thai boys trapped in a cave a pedo, introduced the hideous Cyber Truck, buying Twitter (which was a huge ordeal), to finally becoming a full blown Trump supporter.