Ford's been Woke a long time.
Since that putz Billy Ford floated to the top of the bowl. There was a power struggle within the Ford clan, following Hank the Deuce's retirement and death...the money, thirty years ago, was on Edsel Ford II, Hank's son. But somehow it didn't happen that way - perhaps young Edsel didn't have the killer instinct.
Instead William Clay Ford's (Henry II's brother) son, Billy, emerged. Early 1990s. And we see the chaos that's emerged...as a NON-car-guy, who's a follower, takes control of a company. One where the stock structure is such that only the Ford family can vote to remove a CEO.
First he does his quota pick - Identity Politics. Jacques Nasser, a Lebanese of Arab extraction. He was egotistical, like Iacocca, but without Lee's feel for sales and marketing. What he wanted was to build a power base, buying up foreign niche manufacturers, such as Jaguar.
He fired old white engineers in favor of quota picks...and that was why the quality in new Fords in the 1990s went right into the toilet.
THEN...FINALLY finding the courage to fire the Arab...he makes HIMSELF CEO. Knowing nothing. Learning little-to-nothing. The slide increases.
Billy found a savior in Allen Mulally, former president of the commercial division of Boeing. Mulally was a competent engineer and manager, but that's not why Billy basically begged Mulally to come over.
It's because they were both Woker than Woke. Amazingly, Mulally was able to meld that with managerial competence. In it's own way, that's a real feat. Idiotic incompetence like Woketardedness, tied to administrative ability? It's like holding two opposite positions at once.
But Mulally was not young and wasn't emotionally tied to the car business. He retired, with Ford on good footing, and Billy had to go seek a new Woketard bu_t-buddy.
The latest incompetent is Jim Farley, with some roots from Argentina, formerly of Lexus. I doubt what Farley learned, taking orders from Toyota HQ, could translate into a plan of action to bail out Ford. Which abandoned most passenger-car markets to focus on trucks, especially battery trucks. What could go wrong, there? Am I the only one who remembers 1974 and 1979?
Ford is gonna crash and burn. It will be a Chinese brand in five years - assuming we're allowed to own cars in five years.