Musk Needs an Apprentice

 By far the most valuable thing Musk could do would be to train apprentices in bureaucrat-whispering. 

 With enough Musk proteges, every industry could have a bureaucrat-whisperer. The regulatory tyranny could be entirely neutered, without a shot fired or even a lobbyist bribed. 

 That said there's still a serious crisis of competence. With IQs going into freefall, everyone competent is being absorbed by mere maintenance of yeast-life support systems. It doesn't matter how few regulations your industry functionally experiences if you have nobody competent enough to do anything. I expect tesla and spacex have totally consumed the able and willing elite human capital of america. No spares left over for anyone else. (Especially not political parties.) 

 Musk might have already thought of this. However, nobody can know his primary skill is bamboozling the government. Security by obscurity. Likewise, if he starts teaching his tactics to a second person, that is a potential leak, and with a leak, countermeasures could be devised. First deceive your enemy etc etc. 

 He doesn't realize there's no chance of bureaucrats outmanoeuvring anyone who has a full sociological description of bureaucrats. They simply aren't smart enough to fight back - or they would never have fallen into bureaucracy in the first place. At worst it would be slightly more of a hassle for him.