The correct historical analogy to Elon Musk -- Elon's a cross between Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst

Elon Musk is becoming a progressively more significant figure internationally, so, I thought it might be helpful to find historical personages he resembles, in order to understand and predict his influence a bit better. I think the best I can come up with, is that Elon's a cross between Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst Both were creative and inventive in their own ways, but, above all, both were excellent businessmen. And, also, both became heavily involved in politics in the course of their careers, often with very mixed results, and frequently, in ways that made them unpopular. Also, both arguably had fascist leanings, particularly as they grew older. Henry Ford was both a businessman and an inventor, although probably more of a businessman than an inventor. He certainly didn't invent the automobile, but, he did refine it somewhat, and, in particular, he made it very highly marketable. Ford was, in particular, critical in the development of automated mass production. To such an extent actually, that he was rather viciously satirized by Aldous Huxley as the basis for the entire religious and social structure of his anti-Utopia, "Brave New World", as "Our Ford", in which all the citizens wear the sign of the "T", for Ford's Model T automobile, and technology in general. Ford also leaned progressively more fascist in his later years, supporting Mussolini and Hitler, and strongly opposing all unionization of his factories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World William Randolph Hearst was a newspaper magnate, son of a rich mining entrepreneur, who grew up in great wealth, and decided to use his money to influence and control public opinion through the newspaper industry. His politics were liberal and progressive at first, and he was critical in advancing the career of Republican Progressive, Theodore Roosevelt. As he grew older, however, his politics moved progressively farther to the right, and by the time of the Great Depression he was openly supporting Mussolini and Hitler, and advocating dictatorship in the United States. He was unsuccessful, of course, but his efforts to some extent marginalized his media empire. I think we can see Elon Musk as a fusion of Ford and Hearst, and can predict his behaviors and likely effects to some extent through the prisms of their respective careers in industry, the media, and politics.