He's not really a moral (or even "amoral") actor like you're trying to portray.

He a mildly austistic big-picture systems thinker, but extroverted and inclined to action and risk and at times machiavellian.

Being mildly autistic, he is not as susceptible to groupthink and social consensus. Since the current social consensus is solidly progressive, if you're blue you will view his rebellion as amoral to evil, and if you're red you will view him as having integrity. But really Elon is just following the calculation of his first principles systems thinking, which at root both sides share: human flourishing.