We don’t need to look for nefarious secret objectives for Musk to embrace Trump. We don’t even need to imagine that Musk will try to take privatize government, he has said so.
The simple fact is that Biden and Harris instituted a 15% minimum tax rate on large billion dollar companies. What this means is that that whatever other deductions they use these companies will pay at least 15% annually.
Tesla has paid 0% or less as recently as 2022.
This level of corporate tax dodging is high, and the expected earnings from a wide range of companies is also quite high. These taxes will go far to cutting the deficit.
For the Musk and the other big investors in Trump that is the only reason they need. The millions Musk pays down will be reaped sevenfold in a single year if Trump wins. More even if he passes his proposed tax cuts.
We don’t need a conspiracy to understand why rich people are fine with fascism or Maoism. Nor do we need to understand why ambitious pols like Vance and Youngkin keep making excuses for it. They just want to get paid.