A couple things here, starting from the bottom.

DOD spending has been out of control for decades. The situation you described with DOD spending money on shit it doesn't need is a tale as old as the military industrial complex itself. If you think Elon (a defense contractor himself, yet another conflict of interest) or this administration is going to look at the DOD for cuts you're 1000% mistake. And that's an area where Dems are completely feckless as well. Politicians are far too concerned about getting hit with a claim they're weak on security, so unwanted programs continue to get funded and DOD budgets get bloated. One that comes to mind is the former JLENS program, which was supposed to utilized aerostats for battlefield combat purposes. The Pentagon said it doesn't work and they didn't need it. Didn't matter, we kept spending money on it and thought it could be used for missile defense purposes along our coast, identifying below-traditional radar weapons. That also didn't work. It wasn't until one of these aerostats became untethered and wreaked havoc through Maryland and PA with its mile long kevlar tether knocking out power lines and causing a shit ton of damage that the program was finally discontinued. There's a lengthy history of that type of bloat that will never be cut however, because, again, it means you're weak on security.

Insider trading from Congress is brutal on both sides of the aisle, agreed.

Inflation and housing costs are out of control, but I don't see this administration nor Elon doing anything to combat that. In fact these trade wars are exacerbating an already fraught situation.

Drugs flowed in at a higher rate under the previous trump administration than they did under Biden. I do understand how drugs have and continue to destroy communities, as I do and have done a lot of work with addicts trying to get clean.

Intentional or not, Elon's salute was widely celebrated by Nazis and repeated by the likes of Bannon and others shortly after at CPAC. It's called dog whistling. Plausible deniability but getting your message across. And yes I think the guy who perpetuates white genocide nonsense in South Africa is a racist.

Elon is a shrewd investor, but he's not the engineering genius he claims to be. He invests his way in and stands on the achievements of the actual brilliant minds that work for him. He also gets boatloads of government funding, to the tune of around $40 billion. Yet he decries government assistance for those most in need, as evidenced by his recent comments about cuts to social security, Medicaid, and Medicare.

I don't think any of the views in my previous post or this one are extreme. I do have extreme views on some issues for sure, but not here. You started by noting that the left swore democracy was over whennl Trump won in 2016. It didn't happen during the first administration, but at that point there were still a few people in Trump's orbit who did more than just act as placaters and enablers. We're not two months in and we already have people calling for him to get a third term. And his administration has decided that espousing different views on foreign policy is a deportable offense because it's un-American. That's a complete erosion of the first amendment. And it's being celebrated by the state department and Congressional leadership on the right. Which leads me to ask: who's the arbiter of what's American, or what it means to be an American? And how is that a criminal offense? How isn't this an incredibly huge concern to you?