Exactly!

Pretty much at random, I ran into this video, in which Vivek Ramaswamy says pretty much what I've been saying about Elon Musk, that the US right sees him as something between a messiah and a caudillo who's going to fix everything that's wrong by fixing Twitter, which in my view can't be fixed. At about 10:30, he says "On the right, there's something about the new hunger for a Christ-like figure, and Elon Musk is the latest Christ-like savior figure for the day. I guess when you don't believe in actual Christ, you start looking for Christ substitutes instead."

Jiust the other day, The New Yorker called Ramaswamy The CEO of Anti-Woke, Inc:

The term “woke,” which dates back nearly a century, was initially used in Black communities to describe a raising of consciousness and has since become a catchall denoting awareness of a range of social-justice issues. In recent years, “wokeness” has also become, in conservative circles, a subject of suspicion and ridicule: shorthand for performative righteousness, like “political correctness” before it. Opposition to woke principles has become a business opportunity, too.

The article suggests Ramaswamy is in fact pushing his own investment fund on the basis that it specifically doesn't do woke investing. Certainly there's no shortage of opinion leaders on the right who've deliberately built corporate careers at Fox and elsewhere by selling their political views, but that doesn't automatically make them wrong. Asked by his interiewer in the video to outline his position on the corporate woke, he says, beginning about about 3:00, that the current situation can be traced to the 2008 financial crisis:

What happened in '08 was that capitalists went from being viewed as the good guys, the heroes in the pre-2008 era, to being viewed as the bad guys by the old left afterwards, especially on the heels of receiving the government bailouts, what happend was that [the capitalists] said, "Instead of the Old Left coming after us and doing the things that Occupy Wall Street wanted us to do, we'll make a bargain: we'll use our corporate power to advance the objectives of a new left that had slightly different concerns than the old left." The old left was about economic redistribution, take money from those wealthy corporate fat cats and give it to poor people. This new sort of, we'll call it the woke left, that emerged around the same time, around the time of Barack Obama's election as President of the United States, was what [the woke left] said was actually the theory of the case was slightly different. We care more about systemic racism and misogyny and bigotry and climate change and the racially disparate impact of climate change and so on. And so what they said was, "Look. If you advance out objectives, we'll look the other way to leave your power structure intact."

The transition of capital from good guys to bad guys in 2008 is well illustrated in the film The Big Short, and I can't discount Ramaswamy's point. Nevertheless, I've also thought that the fall of the Soviet Union removed the threat of proletarian revolution from the political agenda of First World capitalism, which in turn took away the basis for Fabian socialism in the Western democracies. This has left progresssivism without a clear direction.

Whether this can be traced to the 2008 crisis or the end of the Soviet Union, the immediate effect has been the same. A less visible side effect on the right appears to be that if history ended with the demise of Soviet Russia, then Russia has otherwise ceased to be an existential threat to the West. This seems to be at the root of the current (and growing) view on the right that supporting Ukraine isn't necessary, the US investment in the war is misdirected, and Zelensky is a scammer.

I would add, whatever Mr Ramaswamy may view as the resolution for the corporate woke problem, the woke platform simply isn't stable. Marx had nothing to say about gender dysphoria, climate change, or systemic racism, and he specifically abjured any alliance of the working class with the petty criminal underclass. Marxism, though, was stable enough to drive certain political theory for much of the 20th century. The woke substitute isn't even that stable.

I think Ramaswamy is correct insofar as he recognizes the woke left is not the old left. Commentators like Mark Levin who insist this is still Marxism should know better. But Musk is the guy who sued Amber Heard to retrieve the fozen embryos he made with her. Definitely he's not the guy to fix anyhing.