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Ah, I see what you're getting at now. The only problem is you're looking at this in a vacuum. Musk isn't the only billionaire attached to the Trump train, a lot of them are. He's the only one stupid, vain and egotistical enough to openly attach his name to all of the looting and plundering of the economy that they are doing.
And the only reason any of his business ventures were successful was because of massive government subsidies, the sort that would likely go away if he pissed off Trump enough. And while he may have been able to attract competent people to run things before, that was back when he had a PR team that made sure to hide what a pathetic sad sack he is. To put it another way; would you work for this pathetic manchild who wants to cosplay being a nazi?
And quite frankly, polls don't mean shit for the republicans, of course Trump is going to be unpopular, what matters is whether anyone actually stops the Trump administration, and while democrats act like the midterms are some "holy grail" of saving democracy, the fact is, Trump's cabinet don't give a shit about decorum and can, will and have ignored due process to get what they want.
And the idea that Elon Musk can just pay a bunch of people to make attack ads against Trump and that will somehow make him lose is absurd. Trump voters aren't going to be swayed by an article in the New York Times telling them "Trump bad" They already know that Trump is bad. They don't care. They like that he hurts the people they hate.
I would recommend reading articles, news and discussions outside of your usual area, even (as gross as it is) republican ones. Find out what they're actually saying. Of course the democrat-centric media is going to hype up Trump's mistakes, and talk about how "This time he's finished!" But they've been doing that since 2015 and he isn't "Finished" yet.
Stick around here, listen to some political analysis from people much more eloquent and informed than I am, consider what they're saying about all of this. To be honest, it kind of sounds like you're stuck in that weird thing Americans do where they just obsess over the elections and midterms almost as if they are a magic spell to fix everything. But Republicans are still going to fuck everyone over even if they lose the midterms, because the Democrats are spineless and always kowtow to the Republicans. As nice as it would be to just have "Blue team wins" and not have to worry, sadly if the people actually want things to improve, they have to break away entirely from this two party system, even if they've been taught their entire lives that it is the "best" system. It really isn't. All this stuff with Trump isn't the cause, it's a symptom of a deeply broken system that needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up by the people.