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Exactly. Tesla's business performance may or may not be good, but OP's analysis is ignoring the huge elephant in the room. It's true that Elon has been an asshole for a long time, but his recent actions cross the line from asshole into something an order of magnitude worse.


Dealing with assholes is the price of living in a society. Open naziism crosses the line of things we're obliged to tolerate in our society.


It's a line that must not be crossed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance


Yeah, it's only really since the salute that Tesla sales have dropped noticably.




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