California’s love-hate relationship with Elon Musk has hit a fork in the road, right along with his fast-collapsing bromance with President Donald Trump: Will the Republicans who have loved him and the Democrats who have loathed him make room for a change of heart?

Maybe.

This is either quite complicated, or not at all. And this split, yet again, is likely going to follow party lines. (But don’t look for a surge in California’s Tesla sales any time soon.)

California Democrats and Musk

Musk’s dramatic fallout with Trump appears to be inspired in large part by the president’s desire to decrease taxes (mostly for the wealthy) and fail to pay for it with commensurate spending cuts, the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” that has passed the House of Representatives.

Musk has called it a “

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