Whenever the far left in the U.S. loses an argument — called an election — it suddenly decides it’s time to take to the streets and get violent. Now is just such a time, as America experiences a new spasm of home-grown anti-Trump, anti-Musk terrorism. It shouldn’t be tolerated.
Whether it’s taking pot shots at the president, violently demonstrating in support of murderous terrorists, “swatting” people they don’t like, or destroying cars made by a person they now despise, our country once again finds extremists threatening us and our liberty.
And, no surprise, it’s nearly all from the far left side of the political spectrum, organized by supposedly “nonviolent” groups, quietly supported by the Democratic Party, and excused by the ultra-biased Big Media.
President Donald Trump’s reelection seems to have brought out even more extremist violence, which had already surged. A report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies recently found “domestic terrorist attacks and plots against government targets motivated by partisan political beliefs in the past five years is nearly triple the number of such incidents in the previous 25 years combined.”
So, yes, it’s very real.
As noted, we’re in the midst of a domestic terrorism outbreak right now, after a spate of what at first appeared to be lone-wolf crimes against Tesla owners and dealers, who only a year ago were the darlings of the so-called progressive movement.
But that was before Tesla chief executive Elon Musk joined Trump’s administration.
Today, Tesla dealerships and electric vehicles are being torched, bombed with Molotov cocktails, or vandalized and damaged beyond repair by people angry that Musk is helping to reduce government waste.
Imagine that: People committing terrorist acts to keep others from cutting government waste.
As if there’s any doubt, Attorney General Pam Biondi has declared the attacks against Tesla “domestic terrorism.” And she’s right.
“The swarm of violent attacks on Tesla property is nothing short of domestic terrorism,” she said. “The Department of Justice has already charged several perpetrators with that in mind, including in cases that involve charges with five-year mandatory minimum sentences.”
These aren’t solo or isolated “protests,” as the left maintains. Indeed, Biondi said prosecutors are looking also for “those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes.”
There have been at least 20 separate attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships in the last three months. As the New York Post’s Karol Markowicz wrote this week:
Tesla dealerships are being firebombed and shot at, while Tesla vehicles are vandalized and their owners assaulted.
Trump-supporting influencers are getting ‘swatted,’ set up for dangerous police encounters by opponents who phone in hoax distress calls.
Relatives of Trump-aligned public figures — including the sister of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Elon Musk’s brother — are receiving bomb threats.
Musk himself believes these are well-planned acts of terror. “An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla ‘protests’: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America,” Musk wrote on X.
A group called “DOGEQUEST” is even doxxing “private home addresses and contact info of DOGE employees, their families, some private Tesla owners and Tesla stores.”
The toxic, and at times inciting, rhetoric in the media and by Democrats against Trump and his new administration has only encouraged the terrorism.
It picked up substantially after last June’s failed assassination attempt, when an aide to Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi posted: “I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking.”
Others on social media and elsewhere chimed in with similar “funny” remarks about the near-death of a presidential candidate.
Now Musk is coming in for some of the same treatment.
California Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia told CNN that Musk is “harming the American public in an enormous way,” adding that it’s time for Americans to bring “actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country.”
Get it? A real fight. Real weapons.
Since then, the violence has only grown, as the media have continued to make light of it. Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel, for one, looked sarcastically into the camera and mockingly said “Please don’t ever vandalize Tesla vehicles.”
Meanwhile, MSNBC downplayed the violent attacks, calling them “protest.”
With all this support, a group called Indivisible is organizing a “Tesla Takedown” campaign for April 5 as revenge on Musk for daring to help shrink our bloated federal government.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them,” the group’s website says. “They’re taking everything they can get their hands on, and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we’re taking to the streets nationwide to fight back with a clear message: Hands off!”
As Townhall recently noted, “Indivisible Project, a 501(c)(4) bankrolled primarily by Open Society Foundations (OSF), the nucleus of the Soros grantgiving nexus, is one of the main activist organizations behind the anti-Musk movement targeting Tesla showrooms all over America.”
But as we’ve already seen, nothing makes a “clearer message” than a few molotov cocktails, physical threats and destructive vandalism of private property.
The far left and its “progressive” billionaire supporters and top Democrats all silently support this activity.
Have you heard any prominent Democrats coming out and condemning the violence, as many Republicans did after the Jan. 6 riots?
We once again have domestic terrorists roaming our streets to cause mayhem and terrorize average people who might own — or even think of owning — a Tesla EV. Elected Democrats, supposedly “leaders” who have said nothing, richly deserve the blame for this rampant lawlessness.
Our suggestion: If you like living in a civil nation governed by laws, and not by street violence, remember this the next time you vote.
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