Global Elon is often mentioned as a potential Dem POTUS candidate although he's not US-born and is thus unqualified. Besides serious invention n building chops he's marketer unparalleled. Even Steve Jobs had no such ability. He needs it to take on GM, Daimler and auto behemoths. Brand is the USP for Tesla, not tech as self-drive n EV startups are all over. For SpaceX tech is the USP as rockets are tough to replicate. Bezos's Blue Origin n Branson's Virgin Galactic have struggled for a year to copy reusable rockets.. poaching engineers, managers, R&D, wapi.
That's what folks don't see: lots of businesses have no unique value and are easily replicable. Musk is a master marketer. What you call politics or attention seeking is marketing 101.