I get that he has some publicly stated positions that are counter to the prevailing positions of the Democratic Party, but I can't think of any that I would consider "right wing". In fact, I can't think of any that would have been out of place for a Democrat in the late 1990s or early 2000s.
He has self-defined long ago as left-wing. Not surprising given he lived in california and started an electric car company. Though in many interviews he tried to assert his position is far less on the left-right spectrum. Which is really the global way it works, it only works this way in the usa.
You can see he self-defined himself here left of center in 2008; but in 2021 he's more right of center. His assertion isn't that he changed but rather the left-wing changed. How he ended up on the right-wing isn't very relevant to the point which identifies him as right-wing.
The context however of why the left has moved so far left has everything to do with socialism dying worldwide. The person you were responding to has a username of socialism. So what he sees from his far-left position is someone on the far right equivalent and this is why they must hate elon.
Not everyone likes an egotistical demagogue, and he only came out as a right-winger as a distraction trying to dodge accountability.
The left haven't moved anywhere, the world did, and the right was left behind, only to reinvent themselves with xenophobic populism just in time to take advantage of the many challenges we are facing.
I'll bite.
What makes Musk "right wing"?
I get that he has some publicly stated positions that are counter to the prevailing positions of the Democratic Party, but I can't think of any that I would consider "right wing". In fact, I can't think of any that would have been out of place for a Democrat in the late 1990s or early 2000s.