The far right hate BEV's.
BEV's are seen as the weapon of a "liberal" agenda, forced to buy something far more expensive than typical ICE (that's recently changing), with very short range (not true), made in China (except for small amount of batteries, false), Union-busting (nope), and spying on you and your family (new ICE cars already do that), will kill oil/gas related jobs overnight, and so on.
FUD smorgasbord!
In true
Trump fashion he
will latch on to any grievance he thinks will get him support, and BEV-hate is a potentially big one.
Trump's visit to Michigan auto workers (link below) is a direct assault against BEV's, and to his minions this will not only vindicate but motivate them to aggressively go after BEV's.
It may be easy to dismiss Trumps army of millions, I would not. Watch for indirect and direct attacks at any BEV, especially the most visible, Tesla.
A few months ago a previously unknown person wrote a song of angst and anger called "
Rich Men North of Richmond" that exploded to the #1 song practically over night. It was a simple song blaming the "rich men", DC politicians, for the singers dire monetary and social situation. It is not the song criticizes any party or person, its the fact it gained tens of million followers practically overnight. This is a good an example as any how powerful and dangerous this group of angry (and deceived?) people are, with a handful of cases of extremists acting on revenge of perceived attacks.
If Trump keeps up the attacks, then like the Anti-COVID vaccine you will see waves of anti-BEV campaigns and even attacks happening. This is much more likely a When, not IF.
As his Republican rivals sparred onstage in California at their second primary debate, Donald Trump was in battleground Michigan Wednesday night working to win over blue-collar voters in the midst of an autoworkers’ strike.
apnews.com
The pointed protest song has become a No 1 hit, aided by endorsements from Joe Rogan and a host of prominent American conservatives. The issues aren’t just political, writes Louis Chilton – the track is just downright bad
www.independent.co.uk
