Elon just went through several bad ideas to come back to the original checkmark system from 2015. The left think they just played him.
A radio station was replacing their popular DJs but knew there would be backlash. So, the new DJs pretended to be hosts for new trial DJs that were awful. Soon people were demanding the new DJs stay in charge.
I get the feeling that just happened. Did Elon do that, or was it happenstance?
There was a lot of Democrat coping along this same line when Trump won in 2016, too. All sorts of "experts" came out of the woodwork to lecture the peasants on how his manner of speaking, dress, facial expressions, hirings and firings, etc. all meant he stumbled into the office and was now scared and flailing. This strikes me as more of the same, and from almost entirely the exact same people.