In Sweden, socialist activists have relentlessly harassed Tesla’s premisses, spewing hate against Elon Musk and even targeting U.S. President Donald Trump. At the heart of this conflict? A union-led obsession with maintaining the Socialist Party’s iron grip on Sweden’s labor market—a power struggle that Musk has resolutely refused to bow to.
During my visit to Tesla’s service center in Upplands Väsby, I learned that the loud protesters from IF Metall were not car mechanics at all, but rather retired leftist activists, brought in to keep the campaign alive. Meanwhile, the actual strikers were relaxing at home, comfortably funded by the union’s strikers fund.
On social media, union leader KG Wanngård boasts about his role as a union “agitator.” This is the same man who has been photographed arriving by limousine to the royal palace with his then-wife, Stockholm’s scandal-ridden finance commissioner, Karin Wanngård. As many other socialists, her time in office has involved golden parachutes worth millions for her close associates and earmarked tax funds flowing to the Swedish branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group labeled as a terrorist organization—all to secure clan-based votes from the migrant suburbs.
During our brief conversation, KG could barely sit still. His conspiratorial rantings about Musk—whom he labeled a “fascist” for refusing to submit to the Social Democrat’s labor market dictatorship—were void of any real reasoning. And of course, Donald Trump got dragged in as well—apparently, he’s much worse than Musk.
Personally, I don’t object to corporatism in principle. But reality clearly shows that the Social Democrats and their cronies bear the main responsibility for much of what’s gone wrong in Sweden. The first step, then, is to dismiss the Social Democratic aristocracy and depoliticize the unions—only then can we return to the drawing board.
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