Musk turned Democrats off Teslas at a critical time. Here’s what they bought instead

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1. He’s literally their entire advertising budget. Letting him go apeshit on Twitter was a horrible idea.

2. Bought lexus plug-in hybrid despite the model S being my dream car since 2010. I refused to buy something that couldn’t primarily run on electric and even though tesla is the market leader I cannot support Elon. I was the biggest Elon fanboy until he got sucked down the anti-working class rabbit hole. That red pill he had was something stronger than weed.

3. Nothing wrong with my 2005 ford focus zx3 and 2009 Honda civic ex-l , both get excellent mpg , and both are cheap to maintain, thanks Obama !

4. Who knew pissing off your main customer demographic and placating red neck racists who aren’t into EV was a bad move for Tesla? — everyone else who isn’t Elon

5. It’s as bad as bud light pissing off white trash

6. Fuck this paywalled nonsense! What EV did yall buy instead?

7. Elon has always been his own worst enemy. I suspect he refuses to accept that anyone else might fill even that role.

8. I’ve had Teslas since 2016 and LOVE them, but will definitely have a tough decision to make when it’s time to get a new car 😥

9. Yeah, I wanted one, but just stuck with my paid for 2010 after looking into the Tesla business model and Elon’s ignorant arrogant ramblings.

10. The best part of my few, older German cars were their engines. The worst was anything electrical. For this reason I could not bring myself to to buy the latest electric German car. It’s just not going to happen.

11. Tesla sales rep admitted , the worst thing about Tesla is Elon. He’s a bigot just like Henry Ford.

12. Whenever I’m meeting new liberal friends who already own a Tesla, there’s that pause in that conversation… their head drops a little and their voice lowers, “I own a Tesla.”

13. Elon easily could have been a Benjamin Franklin but he’s turning out to be some POS only extremists like

14. The reason why musk is musk is because of Democrats. I think the nepo baby keeps forgetting that.

15. I bought a Bolt. 6 years ago, I would’ve considered a Tesla. No way now

16. Kia EV9

17. Is the article trying to claim musk is the reason EV sales are down for all car companies?

18. He got all EV subsidies from the democratic party, it was weird to see him turn to the dark side so fast. Unless he was evil to begin with.

19. Almost seems like he is an idiot