In a pair of Truth Social posts Monday evening, Trump took aim at the electric vehicle industry and President Biden’s push for more electric vehicles. With this opposition to electric vehicles, Trump is likely trying to persuade Michigan voters to support him over Biden, who carried the swing state in 2020.

The Biden administration has pushed to boost electric car sales, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) predicting that two-thirds of new car sales could be electric by 2032 under a new proposal released by the administration earlier this year. Last week, the Energy Department announced plans to invest $12 billion into converting auto manufacturing facilities into plants for hybrid and electric vehicles.

Trump also took aim at Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers, for supporting the Biden administration’s latest investment into electric vehicles.

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    Only the fucking Republicans would end up against innovation.

    The anti-progress culture war bullshit is overdone and tired. Give it a rest and let everyone else move on without you.

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      anti-progress culture war

      And anti-science across the board. War on education from elementary school to college. Very unfortunate.

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      Republicans hate change. They hate that they no longer run the show, though they’re doing what they can to get that power back. They hate that the old white man doesn’t have the strangling grip on society it once had. They hate that minorities and women have rights, though they’re doing what they can to change that. They hate open boarders and people who feel more themselves as a member of the opposite sex. They hate what America was on the path of becoming, which was a place that truly welcomed any and all people.

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        We have a word for that: “regressive”.

        Most of the world’s conservatives aren’t even conservative anymore they’ve become regressive.