Musk fans more inclined to 'tear down' social institutions

A nationally representative survey of 1,600 Americans taken between Feb. 27 and March 5, 2025, found that 18.2% of all Americans "strongly agreed" or "somewhat agreed" with the statement: "We cannot fix the problems in our social institutions; we need to tear them down and start over." People who expressed "a lot" or "a great deal" of trust in presidential adviser and billionaire Elon Musk were more inclined to agree than the average American. People with lower levels of trust in Musk, or none at all, were less likely to agree with the desire to tear things down and start again.