I’m really not worried. Elon and Trump are about as in tune with European culture as they are with common sense. The only reason AfD is taking them on their support is because it’s any support at all. They have shown repeatedly, like most American CEOs who decide to come to Europe thinking it’s a slighly different America, thus same rules apply, that they fundamentally don’t understand anything about the EU. Not the laws, not the cultures, not the way of thinking.
It’s not even because Europe is obscure or difficult to understand. It’s this American CEO arrogance, thinking their way of doing things in America is the only way, the best way and all us lowly peasant non Americans of the world just have to look up and let the rays of American perfection and exceptionalism bathe our inferior barbaric ways of life. You know, right before they crash and burn and their companies don’t work.
I’m really not worried. Elon and Trump are about as in tune with European culture as they are with common sense. The only reason AfD is taking them on their support is because it’s any support at all. They have shown repeatedly, like most American CEOs who decide to come to Europe thinking it’s a slighly different America, thus same rules apply, that they fundamentally don’t understand anything about the EU. Not the laws, not the cultures, not the way of thinking.
It’s not even because Europe is obscure or difficult to understand. It’s this American CEO arrogance, thinking their way of doing things in America is the only way, the best way and all us lowly peasant non Americans of the world just have to look up and let the rays of American perfection and exceptionalism bathe our inferior barbaric ways of life. You know, right before they crash and burn and their companies don’t work.