California helped make Elon Musk — now he can’t stop criticizing it

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In the past year, Elon Musk has fully embraced conservative anti-California grievances, often boosting far-right X accounts. | Matt Rourke/AP

SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk’s relationship with California has always been complicated — but Musk’s MAGAfication has made it downright rancorous.

The tech executive amassed the world’s largest fortune by building Tesla into an automotive juggernaut, anchored by an East Bay manufacturing plant, and firing SpaceX rockets from the Southern California desert and central coast. Billions of dollars in state subsidies helped him prosper.

But along the way, even as Musk forged relationships with Democratic politicians like Gov. Gavin Newsom, he began to turn on the state that helped make him…

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