Legacy of Fear and Power

It has not been a good year so far for Elon Musk’s car company Tesla. Stocks are plummeting and sales are falling even faster as people around the world who are opposed to his involvement in the Trump Administration boycott the company. 

That’s been accompanied by arson and vandalism at Tesla dealerships around the world. But this isn’t the first time that a company has come under sustained attack for its connections to a Presidential administration. 

For three decades, one of America’s biggest beer companies was subject to a boycott because of the conservative views of the family that owned it.

How did that turn out? And what does it tell us about what’s in store for Tesla?

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