The source for the story isn't the "entire leftist online world" (Whatever that is) but rather is a survey called the "consideration" survey published by reuter

The source for the story isn't the "entire leftist online world" (Whatever that is) but rather is a survey called the "consideration" survey published by reuters. In the latest version tesla's score (which is basically the percentage of people who would consider a particular brand when deciding on a new vehicle) has gone down a lot and in the survey of results people cited Musk as part of the reason they would not consider a tesla. This is only a left/right issue insofar as the respondents to the survey cited his right-wing online views specifically as a reason. I would think if your pitch is at least partly to the environmentally-conscious, being toxic to left-leaning people is probably bad business. Additionally, as far as the stock goes, it has an extremely high P/E ratio meaning very high future expectations are priced in. IN that world, failing to meet expectations is much worse than for a more reasonably-priced stock. That's just how the maths works out (given how P/E ratio relies on discounted future earnings).