- Picking a fight with the European labor unions was not a smart move in hindsight.
Backing AfD in Germany and calling them Germany's "best hope for the future" likely rubs the rest of the non-AfD polity the wrong way. He turned driving a Tesla into a political stance in Germany.
- It is here in the US too. I drive on OG Model Y and silently judge new Model 3/Y purchasers. Trained to do so by the Cybertruck.
- >Picking a fight with the European labor unions
Trying to rule when the local custom is to negotiate - US companies keep repeating that mistake. It has not gone well once that I'd know of. Unions are often more concerned about the long term than company leadership, that's an asset!
- Wordy-Title: Tesla (TSLA) can’t find the bottom in Europe as 2026 starts with another brutal decline
- There's lots of support at 0
- > Across the wider region (EU, UK, EFTA), market share fell to 1.7% by November 2025
Tesla was never mainstream in Europe.
- Canadians are starting to hate Tesla too. Why alienate liberal aligned people by acting like a fascist?
- The popularity of the Volkswagen shows that Europe has no objection to (formerly) Nazi cars, but there are limits ...
- I think people are missing the joke here (notice the italicised 'are').
- Indeed,"formerly" carries real weight. It's one thing to have car company with highly distributed ownership that was once Nazi aligned the better part of a century ago, and an entirely different thing to today have a personal piggy bank company for a billionaire Nazi active in global politics.
- If a VW exec throws a Hitler salute in public, they will no longer have a job the next day.
When Musk does it, he gets a trillion-dollar pay package.
So no, there's no comparison to be drawn here.
- Long ago Nazi vs currently another brainfart away from invading
