I mean, people don’t broadly care that much, at least not nearly as much as we hoped. If people were really principled, his fascist support and political involvement wouldn’t have just tanked his whole company but landed him in front a prosecutor.

But the reality is he just had a slump in sales, which had as much to do with affordable and higher-quality competition as his dumb nazi salute and insufferable tweeting. The installation of nation-wide charging networks basically started the countdown to Tesla’s demise.

He pushed and launched the first wide-scale, accessible electric car with any level of support and reliability but without actually innovating and continuing to listen to consumers, he was not able to keep up with people’s buying choices and like with everything else in his entire, fetid life, he just stubbornly doubled-down and insisted that people want his janky-ass cars with their flawed touch screens and hidden door handles and death-trap engineering.