He is wrong. Musk had a fabulous week: made history with Falcon 9 first stage recovery and generated a $14 BILLION backlog for Model 3.
Tell me, when was the last time anyone was that enthusiastic about some piece of crap coming from Detroit? Or Tokyo?
Call him a crony capitalist, a deluded Millennial Leftist, or whatever you want...fact is, he's the guy with the market.
There's a guy who builds hotels and office buildings who does pretty good and people accuse him of being a fraud, but know what? They got the business.
So you didn't read the article? He addresses that point.