This looks to me like
This looks to me like narcissism by Elon Musk, getting in the way of his own judgment. He plans decades out for Tesla. The Democratic Party's economic horizon is usually years out. We're lucky if the Republicans think beyond next month; most of the time it's poll driven reaction to current events. In the end our economic future comes down to fights over unions and wealth inequality, and the hard fact is, we're not going to have electrification or indeed much of an economy, with a continuation of current extreme levels of wealth inequality, and without unions and friendly politicians making the tax code more progressive and corporate governance less shareholder focused and more stakeholder based -- particularly elevating customers in the equation -- we're going to be stuck in that loop and falling behind other parts of the world. The ugly truth is we won't be able to afford Elon's products, while Europe and China will, given Republican economics.