In one of the episodes of The Simpsons, Elon Musk appears befriending the ineffable Homer and confessing that the eccentric character’s ideas had stimulated his own. Certainly, the richest man in the world is a puzzling character. He boasts that he is neither right-wing nor left-wing, that he considers himself half-democrat and half-republican, and that he defines himself as progressive in the social field and conservative in the fiscal field. But his views have long denounced him, such as when he targeted conspiracy theories about covid, when he reinstated Donald Trump’s Twitter account or when he blinded his satellites so that Ukrainian drones would not hit the Russian ships from the Crimean base.

And in case anyone had any doubts, this weekend we saw him as a guest star on the show of Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, who has brought together the most conservative personalities on the planet, such as the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak or the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal. The festival held in Rome was called Atreju, inspired by the brave warrior from The Neverending Story. The main subject of the meeting was the policies to slow immigration to Europe. Musk highlighted the social network X to combat the woke culture, the name by which the social policies of the current left are designated.

Musk aspires to be the new populist leader of the global right. He may not need to stand in the US elections, because his company is on the way to be as powerful as a large state, with leading companies in automotive, satellites, rockets or artificial intelligence. The character can end up being a problem for democracy.

In the recently released film on Netflix entitled Dejar el mundo atrás, starring Julia Roberts, a cyber coup takes place, where the planet’s satellite communications and driverless Teslas are canceled they are hacked to crash them on the highways in order to block the way for law enforcement. Musk protested angrily, but turned yellow like a Simpson when he saw that the producers of the film were Michelle and Barak Obama.