Miranda Devine: Elon Musk playing the role of super man even as haters try to drag him, DOGE down

He’s fixing the budget, rescuing astronauts and saving the planet.Look, up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane?No! It’s Super-Elon.But despite all Elon Musk is achieving, the richest man on Earth is down in the dumps.And who can blame him, considering the death threats, arson attacks against his businesses, feral protests and casual defamation against him every day.Donald Trump tried buying one of his Tesla electric cars this week to cheer up his favorite tech support guy, but Musk still looks sad.He seemed to choke up during an interview with Larry Kudlow for Fox Business last week when asked how he said he was juggling all his other businesses, such as Tesla, SpaceX and X, with his new responsibility of auditing federal government spending.“With great difficulty,” he said, pausing and sighing heavily.“Frankly, I can’t believe I’m here doing this,” he told the empathetic Kudlow, contemplating how his life has been upended since he decided to back Trump during the campaign and then work for free to root out “waste, fraud and abuse” in the federal government.“But we’ve got this enormous federal budget deficit . . .  Our interest payments are higher than our Defense Department budget.That was the real wake-up call for me [seeing] that was only growing over time, which meant that if we didn’t do something about this, then there won’t be any money for anything . . .

I just don’t want America to go bankrupt.”For the once virulently anti-Trump darling of the liberal elites, it is a heroic patriotic mission, and one that appeals to his almost childlike sense of order and justice.He has said that it was Trump’s superhero-style fist pump after he was almost killed by an assassin’s bullet in Butler, Pa., that convinced him to join “Dark MAGA.”But things soured once he started to apply his brilliant mind to government spending through DOGE, the playfully named “Department of Government Efficiency.”Shares in Tesla tanke...