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Elon Musk

Entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX and X

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Built Tesla and SpaceX, bought Twitter and renamed it X, backed Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign and briefly led the Department of Government Efficiency in 2025.

Elon Musk sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and slightly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly tech-optimist on technology, strongly anti-establishment on institutions and strongly free market on economy. The profile is close to the middle on religion.

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Where Elon Musk sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionCentered on religion
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Elon Musk

Peter Thiel Venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder98%Marc Andreessen Venture capitalist and Netscape co-founder96%Javier Milei President of Argentina, 2023 to present96%Silvio Berlusconi Prime Minister of Italy, 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 201196%Liz Truss Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 202294%Balen Shah Prime Minister of Nepal, 2026 to present94%Junichiro Koizumi Prime Minister of Japan, 2001 to 200693%Vivek Ramaswamy American entrepreneur and politician93%

People furthest from Elon Musk

Petra Kelly German Green co-founder, 1947 to 199212%Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 191014%Emma Goldman Russian-born anarchist and writer, 1869 to 194014%Pope Francis Pope, 2013 to 202515%

Political views closest to Elon Musk

Effective accelerationismArgues that rapid technological progress, especially in AI and energy, is the best path…91%SovereigntismInsists that national institutions, not international bodies, should have the final say.86%Economic nationalismUses tariffs, subsidies and industrial policy to protect and grow domestic industry.85%Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.83%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.