One of the reasons this action is one for the history and text books is because, in my opinion, we have a situation where one reasonably can demonstrate that a short squeeze and a ramping rocketing revaluation are not mutually exclusive.
Short squeezes, in retrospect, are relatively easy to dissect and discuss (it ought to go without saying this is not easy anticipatorally, but I decided to add this parenthetical just to fend off comments). A revaluation always is a far more enjoyable exercise. If you’re ghoulish, that can be the case even if you’re dissecting the revaluation of, for example, an Enron, but I digress.
The salient point is that with TSLA, we have a rare...perhaps unique?...case wherein a company combined the prospects of spectacular growth and fortunes with an utterly massive - by every possible metric - amount of short selling.
This made not only for an explosive situation BUT also one where, we can posit and hope, avoids the downslope of any short squeeze.