People continually fall into the trap of pushing a false narrative because they are so blinded by their own agenda.

Like the whole pizza parlor pedo basement thing, people will death grip stupid stuff because they are so desperate to manifest the worst possible image of those unaligned with them.

The problem is that it blows up in their face and just makes them look unreliable, dumb, and lost.

Musk has done so many objectively bad things that there is no need for people to dilute their reputation on fringe theories and interpretations. Pushing the nazi thing just gives Musk ammo that his detractors are so desperate that they need freeze frames and hidden context to make him look bad.

The Democrats are not a left-wing party, I'm not sure why you think "the Left" would be in love with him after all the other horrible things he's done if he just gave money to a political party that is at best centrist.

If you want him to get the benefit of the doubt about his "hand gesture" then it would help if he wasn't promoting far-right parties all over Europe.

Poor Elon put in so much effort into his Nazi Salute, he'd be pretty upset about you downplaying his best attempt, if he could read what you wrote here about him.