Paul Krugman thinks the allegedly brilliant Elon Musk is making an obvious mistake by going full MAGA on Sewer and thereby alienating the primarily blue person customer base for Tesla. Is he right?
Yes, and it’s actually worse than that. The average flamboyant right-wing businessman can count on reactionaries to come to his aid by buying his product if he is attacked from the left. In this instance, however, the red base is totally committed to fossil fuels. It is never going to embrace electric cars just to bail Musk out; coal miners and oil executives are much more important.
Musk is in danger of finding himself a man without a country. A man without money would come next.