Far be it from me to disagree with any one of the assorted Renaissance Men who make up the editorial staff of the New Republic, but I suspect that, in averring late last year that Elon Musk is a “deeply stupid and incompetent person” who “is simply not very good at anything,” staff writer Alex Shephard might have reached just a few feet over his skis. Among the words that Shephard used to describe Musk were “pathetic,” “idiot,” “toddler,” “toxic,” and “moron.” Among the criticisms he offered were that some of SpaceX’s rockets have exploded and that Tesla’s self-driving technology does not yet work perfectly. Among the predictions he made was that it would be a “shock” and a “surprise” if Twitter “exists in a year.” (Shephard has 71 days left for this augury to come true.) His conclusion: Musk “is making the world worse in innumerable ways.”
On Saturday, one of Musk’s companies landed a reusable 223-foot-tall space-rocket backwards on a launch tower.
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