JASON CHAFFETZ: Why Democrats suddenly hate your electric vehicle

Mark Kelly’s Tesla has a breached virtuousness signal. His isn’t the lone one. The Arizona senator, similar galore leftists, presumably bought the car to show his committedness to his party’s favourite pretext for spending payer dollars: clime change.  

But present that the company’s proprietor is successful a nationalist conflict to extremity wasteful spending of those dollars, that virtuousness awesome doesn’t enactment anymore.

Kelly triumphantly took to Elon Musk’s X app (formerly Twitter) to denounce his Tesla and brag astir its replacement: a "good ole’ Chevy Tahoe" with a 15 mpg interior combustion engine. I conjecture redeeming the satellite takes a backseat to redeeming the taxation gross streams that person been decimated by Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Five Tesla vehicles were acceptable connected occurrence and changeable astatine successful what constabulary are investigating arsenic a "targeted attack" astatine a section repair halfway successful Las Vegas connected Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Hal Sparks via Storyful)

Democrats wanted to legislatively prohibition gas-powered vehicles and unit radical to thrust electrical cars. But since Musk created the astir fashionable and viable electrical vehicle, present it is vogue to bargain a state SUV.

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The Democrats and particularly Kelly’s blatant hypocrisy hardly stands alone. It utilized to beryllium that each bully leftists wanted to thrust Teslas. Now it seems each bully leftists privation to cardinal your Tesla. Tesla owners, galore of whom bought their vehicles earlier the virtuousness awesome shift, person been the targets of aggravated persecution, vandalism and adjacent unit successful immoderate cases. 

It’s a abrupt shift, but it’s not the archetypal clip Democrats person fixed Americans whiplash from a hard U-turn.  

Remember the about-face successful 2020 from pandemic lockdown mode to convulsive protestation mode aft the decease of George Floyd? For months, the near had been adamant that we deterioration masks, societal region and enactment home. They filled successful skate parks with sand, closed beaches, prohibited boating, closed campgrounds and demanded outdoor masking.  

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But past the near needed to capitalize connected the Floyd situation. And suddenly, each of those rules went away. For a little play – conscionable agelong capable to incite nationalist protests, Democrats slammed connected the pandemic breaks and changed direction. 

Principles spell retired the model erstwhile powerfulness is connected the line.  

Make nary mistake – Elon Musk is threatening the powerfulness centers of the left. It’s wherefore they’re present consenting to wantonness their hard enactment against interior combustion engines and persecute the erstwhile Tesla owners (some of whom astir apt bought the car successful the hopes of redeeming the planet).

Meanwhile, an American institution with ingenuity and superior creates the astir invaluable car institution successful the world, employing 80,000 Americans, and Democrats similar Kelly would descend it each to people a fewer inexpensive governmental points.  

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Would they besides person america cull the remainder of Musk’s contributions to the world? The rockets that retrieve astronauts? The Neuralink breakthroughs that bring exertion entree to paralyzed individuals? The underground tunnels that tin beryllium built beneath existing cities? The outgo app that is revolutionizing commerce? Internet entree via outer to alteration Ukraine to combat Russia?

Democrats would person america cull innovation – for what? An uncertain fiscal future? A warrant that they volition ever beryllium capable to stack the electoral platform successful their ain favor?  

We person a once-in-a-lifetime accidental to really tackle our unsustainable fund trajectory, and Kelly and his ilk cull it outright. Do Democrats person a program to equilibrium the national budget? In my experience, they can’t adjacent admit the request to bash so. They’ve ne'er sought a fund that really achieves balance. 

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Their extremity isn’t the advancement of America oregon the satellite astatine large. It’s power. They should beryllium characterized by their flailing, gnashing of teeth, and resisting everything that is singular and communal consciousness successful our backstage economy. 

The signifier is clear. When they disagree, they crook to violence. It’s meant to intimidate, not triumph the governmental battle. They disagree with Elon Musk, they people emission-free vehicles. They disagree with the Supreme Court, they endanger the justices. They disagree with police, they destruct cities.

Kelly is the embodiment of everything commonsense Americans are coming to hatred astir the left. That the erstwhile astronaut could not adjacent admit the worth of Musk’s SpaceX retrieving astronauts from an unexpected enactment successful abstraction is revealing.  

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I won’t beryllium selling my Tesla. Or my F150 truck. But I volition beryllium cheering connected Elon Musk and his legendary effort to basal retired the waste, fraud and maltreatment that leftists person tried truthful hard to protect.

For Democrats, it’s each astir powerfulness and not astir principle. 

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