From self-proclaimed 'socialist' to 'red pill' anti-lockdown crusader: What are Elon Musk's political beliefs?

"I prefer to stay out of politics." Those were Elon Musk's words when the tech exec was forced to respond to a claim by Texas governor Greg Abbott that he supported the state's anti-abortion laws. If so, Mr Musk has a funny way of showing it. Over his decade-plus of public fame as the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, the South-African-born tycoon has attacked everyone and everything, from Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders through individual regulatory officials to Covid rules, trade unions, and "pronouns". On Monday, he hammered US president Joe Biden's flagship infrastructure and social spending bills for granting unnecessary subsidies to the electric car industry and increasing the "insane" federal budget deficit.