Hence my scare quotes. He's ""conservative"" in the way that most capitalists are: they want low taxes and breaks to maximize profits for industry. That's the beginning and the end it for 'ole Elon.

We all know that his long game is a gaggle of AI concubines.

(And to further expound: it's the Democrat's socialist program that drives up taxes, and creates a place like California (or my state, Illinois, which continues to bleed residents) that people need to run run away from to get a leg up economically; then they turn a Tennessee or Texas into an Illinoi...