Elon is like Jesus. Crucification only elevates his status.
As a non-believer, there's an older tradition he can borrow from, which Gandhi picked up. Cf Plato's, Apology where Socrates is reported to say, in effect, "the state has the right to punish me, and I have the right to protest but must accept the punishment."
Despite the bullying punishment of his early years, just as he is above average mentally, he is at bedrock a moral man.