In a tweet that shocked absolutely no one, Elon Musk instructed his sycophants to vote Republican in the midterm elections. The man who took over a company and immediately fired its board of directors and half its staff argued to his followers that “shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties.”

The call to action comes after Musk tweeted in April, around the time he first teased purchasing the platform, that Twitter should remain “politically neutral” in order to earn “public trust.”

Musk has been rubbing elbows with prominent conservatives seeking to have a hand in the w...