Return of Le Car
“When you buy a car, I hope it will be a Democratic car.”
Oops. We have misquoted the president. He said last week he hoped you would buy an “American car” — though apparently not one built in a red state in a plant owned by Japanese or German investors. He meant a car built by a company headquartered in Detroit, even if the car itself is assembled in Mexico or Canada. How confusing.
Hundreds of shoppers certainly understood him to mean a Chrysler car. They rushed into dealerships last weekend. Never mind that Chrysler isn’t technically making cars in the U.S. at the moment — it shut down its factories — and when it reopens it will be on a path to ownership by a company based in Turin, Italy.