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Of the people who love culture wars and hate liberals, and yet at the same time also believe in climate change and want to buy an electric vehicle, aren’t they much more likely to buy the new electric f150?

In general this combination of beliefs seems like too small of a segment to build a company with a market cap like Tesla’s around.

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You don't have to believe in climate change to buy an electric vehicle. You might believe in energy independence, or you might just think it's going to work out cheaper.

That’s fair, though isn’t the combination of people who believe those things plus also want their car purchase to explicitly signal their socially conservative political views (if we assume that actually is the strategy at work here) still a niche, rather than what would otherwise be valued as the largest car company in the world?

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