He doesn't understand politics.
One of my children works in a Tesla factory and says he is in over his head. The factory is slumping and the people in charge are letting defects come through the assembly line due to poor management. Musk hasn’t been on-site in a while and it is showing. The Cyber truck has loads of issues (besides being fugly).
Considering the extended range of Elon Musk’s attention span (which, once affixed, can span literally YEARS), it may take a while to bring him back down to merely practical considerations, such as the greater good of a political party with some discipline. Who knows, Thomas Massie, may be the very first member after Elon Musk to represent this new party that Musk has proposed creating. This is not a matter of being odious, remember that H. Ross Perot created a political party for the firm purpose of keeping George H.W. Bush from a second term. Of course, that went a little sideways, as it actually put Bill Clinton in the Oval Office.
Just remember, what seems like impulsiveness on the part of Musk, is just his long leaps of thinking he does from time to time, not thinking better, but definitely much faster.
Agree he’s out of his areana on that one.
Musk must be just about the only person who has gone to work in DC (at the highest level) and left town more naive than when he came in.
Serious sign of poor pattern recognition, slow on the uptake.