He's done the same asinine antics his entire career - friends at early-days at Tesla corroborate the identical on the spectrum nonsense that conveniently is now all over mass media. The only difference is back then he was saying batshit things that were on-canon for feel good progressives.

This is the same thing as twitter folding in like 3 days when he did those grand layoffs; arguments entirely grounded in feels of the aformentioned group.