I think you need better people in your life

Until he's not wealthy anymore. Money is by far the thing people respect the most

The fact that capitalists love him so much speaks volumes about how inherently stupid this system is

I don't know a single person who likes Elon

Whenever anyone brings him up in a positive context in real life, I mock them. I'm not normally that sort of person, but pointing and laughing at someone being an idiot is sometimes the only way to get them to stop. Thankfully my friend circle doesn't really have any Elon Musk stans, and quite a few of them have family or friends who fell into the Musk cult, so they're even more sick of hearing about him than I am.

with physical violence

I swear that somehow stupidity became extremely concentrated after the proliferation of Elon and Tesla in the mid-late 2010s.

He's now openly supporting Trump, so I think libs are going to turn on him for good because of their hatred of Orange Man Cheeto Drumpf. They can pretty much brush everything else under the rug because ”he's done so much good” or whatever, but this'll be a step too far. You could point out that sharing antisemitic conspiracy theories and transphobia is equally bad, but libs aren't exactly morally consistent.

Oh yeah, and they'll probably come up with some nonsense theory about how the Muskrat is Russia's pawn too.