How Elon Musk Won His No Good, Very Bad Year

What a weird time to be Elon Musk.

This year opened with the businessman turned political operator throwing what appeared, to Nazis at least, to be a Sieg heil.

This spring, activists frequently congregated outside the showrooms of his automaker, Tesla, to protest his foray into the US federal government and cozy relationship with President Trump. They argued that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a cost-slashing operation named after a more than decade-old internet meme, didn’t slash…