Maybe he is neither necessarily friend or enemy, but a useful thorn in our enemies side.

I don't agree with everything Elon does (I really don't like the direction Tesla is taking cars, and am wary of a lot of the transhuman stuff), but I can still respect some of his companies accomplishments, and I love the consternation he has brought buying Twitter.

I do agree with him about the birthrate problem, we have too few of the right people having children for multiple reasons.

As far as how he handles "hate speech" we still have to wait and see what happens.