[wkat4242]

How is it a culture war? I thought that was pretty much over since the cybertruck convinced even hardline republican gas guzzler owners to buy one :P

Elon is very intolerant but at least he is popular with the traditionally hardline climate change denier crowd. I'm really hoping that will make for bipartisan climate action support in the end.

[kbos87]

Hasn't happened just yet, they still need more time to think up their excuses as to why they finally caved and bought the clearly superior technology ;)

[bluGill]

while the electric truck exists, it is in short supply and so you can't really get it. So they hake time.

[dubcanada]

This article seems to suggest there still is hold out amongst hardline republicans. Though it also suggests it could be gas costs related...

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/republican-strongholds-are-barel...

[tomjakubowski]

A Cybertruck with a dedicated combustion engine for rolling coal, now that would be something.

[ytdytvhxgydvhh]

True enough, the biggest Trump supporter I know bought a Tesla a few years back. But Trump has pivoted to something like “Democrats and globalists support electric cars so electric cars are bad”: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-wishes-electri...