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Ironically, the one American car company that was interesting to Europeans was Tesla.

European governments may be reluctant to put a tariff on Tesla because of Elon Musk's political association with the Trump government. This is literally how fascism works, and appeasing the bully is distasteful, but that's realpolitik. It will be up to European consumers to reject Tesla because the brand is now toxic.

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I keep asking 2 colleagues how their nazi car is, suffice to say they are not very happy and ashamed of owning it now. Of course both have semi-mandatory stickers with 'I bought this car before elon turned nazi' but that's a bit bullshit... he was utter piece of shit way before he entered government with his salutes. Very effective manager with a good nose on hiring actually brilliant technical people, but that's about it with his positives.

Horrible parent, horrible boss, racist spoiled nepo kid out of touch with reality with gigantic ego, who grew up in apartheid and evidently took not so good lessons from it... I could go on, it was out there for all who cared to look. Most didn't due to his stellar successes.

I imagine that being a poor Dad with a gigantic ego is pretty common amongst CEO's. Sure there were troubling signs but there were also signs of Musk working for the better good, like pulling out of Trump's advisory council in 2017 to protest pulling out of the Paris accord. It was obvious the guy was weird and a little unhinged, but many of my interesting friends are weird and a little unhinged. Buying a Tesla before 2024 was an unequivocally "left" statement.

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