> The phrase "shooting oneself in the foot" comes to mind. It should come to mind for elon, not car buyers. He built a car company based on environmentalism th

> The phrase "shooting oneself in the foot" comes to mind. It should come to mind for elon, not car buyers. He built a car company based on environmentalism that naturally appealed to people with environmental concerns and then pivoted to publicly insulting and denigrating those exact people. It's not even really political. Elon isn't the first CEO to hold political values that differ from a majority of the company's customers. It's the fact that he goes out of his way to call his most likely customers retards.