It's funny how often an open propaganda is displayed here and cherished sheepishly by the hn crowd - "hackers" and "wannabe startup-ers". The fact is, Tesla is VASTLY more successful than anything any wokeist has ever been able to achieve. If Tesla sales drops in California it's undeniably much more likely to happen due to the DISASTER that DEI policy has brought in the state and some of the cities. People are leaving the state, wealth is destroyed, cities are destroyed. It is quite evident that there is no news about Tesla Sales decline in the US. Which means there are no such decline. Which means that Tesla doesn't have a problem, California has. Go Woke - Go Broke. And no matter what partisanship newspapers spread around, the achievements that Elon Musk personally has achieved are much more important than the feelings of few fanboys of Marx, living in the US. We are still waiting DEI policies to produce Starship, instead they account for a few tens of billions of loss in Boeing. You cannot expect to turn the whole country into 1984 distopia, persecute political opponents, create a thought police and nothing to retaliate. The fact remains - intelligent people are not leftists. No matter how many scientist you will cancel, how many Nobel prize you will try to revoke, in the end you have to eat - the same way as people in the USSR had to eat. And some people know how this ended up with Lisenko and denying natural facts and basic science.