What’s the Real Target of the Assault on Tesla?

American Thinker ^ | 3 Apr, 2025 | Scott S. Powell

[MtnClimber]

The war on Elon Musk and Tesla is driven by far more than politics. One thing is for sure: Tesla owners never saw this one coming. After all, Tesla fans are generally predisposed to embrace climate change and much of the Green New Deal -- positions with large support among people on the Left side of the political spectrum. For many, owning a Tesla is a statement of virtue signaling that you are doing your part to save the world and save the environment. Owners of Teslas are more likely to vote Democrat than Republican. So why would Tesla dealerships and Tesla car owners be targeted for destruction? And who are these radical property destroyers?

If the American people have learned anything in the last ten or fifteen years -- particularly highlighted by the $2 billion destruction of national urban properties that came about after the police detention death of George Floyd in May of 2020 -- it is that destructive riots are not organically spontaneous.

The trigger events for riots are understood and sometimes planned well in advance. Once the trigger event happens, the riot plan gets executed and implemented. Militant activist rioters -- many being members of BLM and Antifa -- can be mobilized and bussed to target areas, paid as much as $300 a day from various NGOs, to engage in protest, obstructionism, and property destruction. Other evidence that the 2020 riots were planned and managed could be clearly observed in the strategic delivery of pallets of bricks in many of the targeted cities for the purpose of facilitating the breaking of windows and looting.

With the deterioration of law and order in urban America, which has also been planned, and with very few rioters arrested and sentenced to jail time in 2020

[kiryandil]

So it’s the insurance companies that are really taking the hit economically.

And if the insurance companies take a hit, then they raise EVERYBODY'S rates.

So the Democrat terrorists are making war on all of us. Hang them.

[Omnivore-Dan]

Maybe everyone, but what I read was Tesla Owners rates were being considered to be raised, since it’s claimed they are a higher risk, although only a very small fraction of Tesla vehicles were damaged or destroyed.