I'll give credit where it's due. The memes, the 'swasticar' stuff - it worked.
The negative bias isnt just some lefties, it's the drivers themselves feeling it.
That stigma is not about to go away, so as long as Musk's name is attached, the only buyers will be ideological ones.
This is one of the things that pissed me off during the election campaign. Calling Trump "weird" worked as well, for all of a couple of weeks, and then the party muzzled Walz and never let anyone say it again.
They had an effective ad campaign that hit their opponents right where it hurt - their fragile ego - and they just...gave up.
Wow, maybe Elon is the only person capable of getting Republicans out of internal combustible engines and into electric cars. Welcome to Bizzaro World.