Musk is now facing investigations/Biden administration action against three of his companies. As we reported, the latest effort is the DOJ and the SEC looking at the use of Tesla funds for a "secret project" that allegedly involves the building of a glass house that some say might be for Musk. Could there be a more sketchy type of investigation where it's not even clear that there was any form of a crime? Then the DOJ is also pursuing a civil action against SpaceX, alleging they somehow violated the law by hiring U.S. citizens and permanent residents but not hiring "asylees and refugees." Finally, the FTC has been targeting Twitter. The FTC had a consent agreement with Twitter, yet the FTC was allegedly leaning on the independent assessor to produce a bad report against the platform after Musk bought it. 

That's why, when some people complain about issues on X and think Musk might not be moving fast enough, I point to what he has already put at risk and say I think he's put a lot on the line. Maybe afford him a little slack. 

So why has he done it when he certainly didn't have to? We've talked about what he's said about wanting to protect free speech and what he's said about the dangers of the woke mind virus.

“I am neither conventionally right nor left, but I agree with your point,” Musk declared. “The woke mind virus has thoroughly penetrated entertainment and is pushing civilization towards suicide. There needs to be a counter-narrative.”

That’s a pretty amazing response if you think about it. He gets that this is an existential fight, that our civilization as we understand it is at risk in this fight. That’s a huge point to get when we see folks in the Republican establishment not seem to understand that, when we see folks who claim to have been on the right or “conservative” helping the left, thus helping that movement toward chaos. Would we even have imagined a few years ago that the Democrats would refuse to even define what a woman is? But here we are, with them denying even that order in life, that there is nothing you can point to that defines a woman. That’s chaos.

But one of the reasons I believe he's a "true believer" is that this is not just an esoteric exercise for him; it's hit him in the heart, in the center of his family. 

In a new biography by Walter Isaacson, Musk revealed how his child Xavier, who now goes by the name Vivian Jenna, became transgender, and things went wrong.

Musk tried to stay positive when he found out, but his child then became a "fervent Marxist and broke off all relations with him," the biography states.

"She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil," Musk said.

The rift between Musk and his child pained him "more than anything in his life since the infant death of his firstborn child Nevada," Isaacson wrote.

"I’ve made many overtures," Musk said. "But she doesn’t want to spend time with me."

Musk blamed the school that his child had been attending, Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences. “Twitter, he felt, had become infected by a similar mindset that suppressed right-wing and anti-establishment voices,” Isaacson wrote.

So Musk bought Twitter to protect free speech and "save the world" because he was afraid civilization was going to fall, and the woke mind virus had already claimed his child. He gets the existential nature of the battle and what's at stake, perhaps more so than many on the right. There is no one more powerful and dedicated than an aggrieved parent, set loose, one who feels he's standing for something greater than himself and for the good of humanity.