Now the the world’s richest man and self-styled free thinker is hard to distinguish from the anonymous trolls he once decried on his platform. Musk literally jumped around on stage with Trump, awkwardly proclaimed himself “dark MAGA” and in his brief remarks in Butler, Penn. offered a series of generic Trumpworld talking points.

He invoked in heroic terms Trump’s defiant fist pump after he survived a July assassination attempt; he declared that “this election is the most important election of our lifetime” and that “the other side wants to take away your freedom of speech.”