The left has lost — is lost — in more ways than one.
Blowing up, setting fire to, shooting into, or otherwise destroying privately-owned Teslas, their dealerships, or charging stations has become the latest mode of so-called ‘resistance’ to Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts — as has assaulting Tesla owners and drivers.
‘Domestic terrorism’ is what Attorney General Pam Bondi calls it. She’s right.
It’s only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or killed.
The windows on Tesla vehicles, and particularly Cybertrucks, are often heavily tinted.
How could someone throwing a Molotov cocktail into a parked vehicle in a suburban lot or on a residential street even know if a person — or a child — was inside?
Do they even care?
Seems not. Democratic leadership and their left-wing media cheerleaders have been dead quiet on this months-long national rampage.
Barack Obama, who loves the sound of his own voice adopting moral superiority, could easily stand up and call for an immediate end to this.
He has not.
Nor have Bill or Hillary Clinton. AOC, who has never met an injustice she won’t squawk about, has nothing to say. Nor does Joe Biden — in fairness, an utter irrelevance — or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer.
Kamala Harris: same. Her erstwhile running mate, however, seems in favor of the violence.
‘On the iPhone, they’ve got this little stock app,’ Tim Walz said at an event this week, his infuriating folksy drawl sounding quite bemused. ‘I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day — $225 and dropping!’
Only a complete moron would root for an American company that manufactures on American soil to fail — a company, by the way, seeking to curb carbon emissions — or for 401(k)s and average stockholders to suffer.
But sure: Burn them up. Send even more noxious fumes into the atmosphere. Put average, hardworking citizens and first responders in harm’s way.
Then again, this is the guy who, as governor of Minnesota, let Minneapolis burn during Black Lives Matter riots. Whose wife proudly said she kept the windows of the governor’s mansion open so she could ‘smell the burning tires’.
The guy who reportedly gave his daughter, then 19, top-secret information about law enforcement’s movements during those riots — which she then attempted to share with rioters.
Jimmy Kimmel, pure and utter smarm, told us what he really thinks in his Tuesday night monologue.
‘Tesla stock is way down, almost disastrously so,’ he said. His audience clapped and cheered.
‘People have been vandalizing Tesla vehicles’ — that’s quite the euphemism for arson and gunfire, Jimmy — ‘new Telsa vehicles. Please don’t vandalize, don’t ever vandalize’ — eyebrow raise, eye squint, all but a wink-wink — ‘Tesla vehicles’.
And the left thinks that Republicans — dumb, ill-informed, easily swayed by charismatic celebrities — are the ones who vote against their own self-interest.
Gavin Newsom: Where’s he?
The disgraced California governor, having just presided over the worst response to wildfires in his state’s recorded history, is more concerned with flogging his new podcast.
If Newsom wanted to make some real headlines, he could condemn this violence in no uncertain terms.
The FBI has plainly said what the left needs to hear. Spencer Evans, FBI special agent and head of the Las Vegas bureau, said this in the wake of several targeted local attacks:
‘Specifically to those who might think that something like this is justifiable or potentially even admirable, we want to let you know it’s a federal crime. We will come after you, we will find you, and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.’
If only President Trump had the same moral authority. His complete pardon of the January 6 rioters, some of whom attacked police officers that day and had extensive criminal records, has left him compromised here.
Even senior citizen Pamela Hemphill, the so-called ‘Maga Granny’ who served 60 days for her part in those riots, declined her pardon.
To accept, Hemphill said, ‘would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law, and of course our nation’, she said. ‘I pleaded guilty because I was guilty’.
Simple, clear, easy and truthful: That’s the kind of messaging both sides could use.
But if the left wants to assert itself as the party of morality, it has a lot of distancing to do — not just from these arsonists, who Musk has publicly suggested have powerful financial backing — but with those who identify as pro-Hamas.
They need to reject campus agitators destroying property, targeting Jewish students and faculty, and sympathizing with antisemitic terror groups.
That recently deported Brown University professor who travelled to attend the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and who kept ‘sympathetic’ photos of terrorists on her phone, should be an easy one for the left to discard and disavow.
As should green-card holder Mahmoud Khalil, the 30-year-old Columbia student and Syrian-born Palestinian causing major problems for Jewish students and faculty.
Khalil has been the lead negotiator of Columbia United Apartheid Divest, which supports Hamas, Hezbollah, the terror attacks of 10/7 — which Khalil and his ilk call ‘resistance’ — and calls for the death of the West.
Easy. Go. He’s not an American citizen. He seems to hate everything America stands for — except, apparently, our First Amendment and the right to free counsel.
Democratic leaders who won’t stand up to arsonists and domestic terrorists have stood up for this guy, an enemy of the state.
Chris Murphy, senator from Connecticut, for one: ‘There is a young man in jail today’ — please, he’s almost middle-aged — ‘for protesting at his college . . . In dictatorships they call this “a disappearance”.’
We all know where Khalil is. The country’s liberal newsrooms are in high dudgeon over this arrest — which, again, tells us all we need to know about the dying days of legacy media and the Democratic Party itself, at a 27 percent approval rating, its lowest in decades.
The left needs to admit that, yes, foreign professors and ‘professional students’ are sent to America, by our enemies, to poison young minds and foment destruction of the West from within.
We all see it. It’s not racist or Islamophobic to have the discussion. House Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash) is among the party’s few apostates willing to admit as much.
He is against DEI, ‘defund the police’, criminal justice reform and much of far-left ideology — and said so last month in the left’s most revered bible, The New Yorker.
‘The new left,’ Smith said, ‘is a very concerted and well-organized effort around a series of policies that have utterly and completely failed. Trying to fix it and get people to pay attention to it has been difficult.’
There’s no better time than now, and no easier position than the safety and well-being of American citizens driving the car of their choice.
Can the Dems bring themselves to do even that?