Letter to the editor: One way to fight fascism — don’t buy Teslas

I have been living with an illusion. I believed that everybody was educated to know what the Nazis did in World War II and that use of Nazi symbols was illegal in Germany. Elon Musk’s apparent use of the Nazi salute violated those beliefs. Had the gesture been somehow different or accidental, a normal person would have apologized. Instead, he called criticism of his gesture a “dirty trick.”

Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the rhetoric of cost-cutting and regulatory streamlining li … (read more)