Jack was a 3% owner with no real power to rein in his secret police. He was Rasputin in beard only. His top executives mocked him in not-so-private chats. Elon ain't having that and quickly axed the disloyal factions. That speaks to his acumen as a leader. It's arguable whether Twitter has a brighter future as a Blue Team party organ (partially subsidized by the surveillance state), or as a "public square" with diverse views. One bet is that the mainstream media have shit the bed with their partisanship and are now completely discredited, leaving the field open for a new trusted news source. That seems to be the bet Elon is making, at least in public. Doubtless, he has some other business interests tied up in owning Twitter and will have to work out political support beyond the DoD. But it is interesting to see the soft white belly of the State Dept and CIA/FBI exposed. Clearly, his enemies are not the people who control lucrative satellite contracts. Do your own math on that one. And there's always the simple explanation that Elon has some residual affection for classical liberal capitalism, a vestige of that ol' Valley Libertarianism typical of PayPal at its founding (and other 2000s era entrepreneurs and VCs). In this interpretation, what we're seeing at Twitter is partly a reassertion of entrepreneurial ownership interests against the managerial class of public/private mandarins.