Elon Musk is being vilified by deranged hate-filled liberals trying to destroy his legacy as Telsa Cybertrucks are torched and showrooms vandalised
When we look back at the 2020s one figure will stand out for the multiple ways in which he changed our lives, mostly for the better: Elon Musk.
Given the scale of his talents, it’s little wonder that Musk has made enemies as he mounts his offensive on the behemoth that is federal spending.
Even so, the sheer bile of the liberal mob that has set out to destroy him is astonishing.
The dumping of shares in his auto giant Tesla is one thing. But the attacks on the company’s showrooms, the Molotov cocktails thrown at its cars and the setting alight of its charging stations, all speak of a liberal elite which has lost all sense of reason and proportion.
In his sheer energy and breadth of interest, Elon Musk outshines even tech geniuses such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.
Through PayPal, Musk democratised commerce, allowing the small guy to do business on the internet alongside large corporations.
Where the climate lobby thought – mistakenly – that it could force electric cars on drivers through the blunt instrument of bans, quotas and targets, Musk succeeded in making the vehicles attractive to buyers – creating the world’s most valuable car company in the process.
Somehow, he has found time, too, to prove that space travel and the business of launching satellites need not be a monopoly of the state.
Musk wielding a chainsaw against 'bureaucracy' alongside Argentine President Javier Milei
SpaceX has shown that the private sector can launch rockets more cheaply than Nasa and achieve something that America’s space agency never managed: to build a genuinely reusable rocket that – unlike the Space Shuttle – doesn’t have to jettison its largest components before it reaches orbit.
Musk has done more than anyone else, too, to reverse the erosion of free speech that was gradually closing minds both in America and abroad.
It took nerve for him to fire the army of Left-wing ‘fact-checkers’ that had been policing Twitter before his purchase of the platform. And now he has turned his attention to public administration through his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Needless to say, it is the last two projects which have stirred liberal hatred against Musk to a deranged new level. Before he bought Twitter (now renamed X), everything seemed to be going the Lefties’ way. They could count on social media sites to censor what they didn’t want people to read about climate change, Black Lives Matter and a host of other subjects.
An ever-growing battalion of like-minded, woke federal government officials was steadily turning America in their favoured direction – not to mention providing lucrative public-funded careers for Left-wing activists.
No one likes it when someone takes away the punch bowl just as their party is getting going, but Musk is even more certain to arouse their fury by trimming the liberals’ political influence, too. It doesn’t enter into Left-wing heads, of course, that America’s ballooning debt can’t keep on growing for ever.
Sooner or later, bond investors are going to lose faith with the government’s ability to repay its debts, demand far higher rates of interest and cause a fiscal meltdown – as happened in many European countries a decade ago. Far better that spending is brought under control before we reach that point.
And it can’t be done by nibbling away at the edges. Musk’s planned abolition of whole government departments is the only way to tackle the public-sector empire-builders who will always push up spending given half a chance.
A protestor holds a banner outside a Tesla showroom during a demonstration in Lisbon
Two burned Tesla Cybertrucks sit in a storage lot in Seattle. Left-wing protestors have been vandalising Telsa vehicles and even destroying them
The same principle is at work in Argentina where President Javier Milei has taken his metaphorical chainsaw to government – to great effect.
The attacks on Tesla are absurd in their self-contradiction. We are witnessing climate fanatics who think only electric cars can save us from Armageddon suddenly attacking the company which brought the technology mainstream success in the first place.
German drivers have abandoned their Teslas – sales there fell by 60 per cent in January and by a further 76 per cent in February – in protest over Musk’s support of the anti-immigration political party Alternative for Deutchsland (AfD), which came second in recent elections.
Germany’s liberals have accused Musk of pushing ‘far-Right’ politics, and of performing what they wrongly interpreted as a Nazi salute at a rally to support Donald Trump’s election.
No doubt the irony is lost on Germans that they are trying to sell cars to America that are manufactured by Volkswagen – a company that really was founded by a Nazi.
Not only did Adolf Hitler come up with the idea of a ‘people’s car’, he helped design it, too, giving Ferdinand Porsche instructions on the layout.
The company’s first car, the KdF-Wagen, carried the name of a Nazi slogan, ‘Strength Through Joy’.
No one is forced to agree with Elon Musk’s political views if they don’t want to. But having lost the argument, liberals are trying to destroy the man.
This is not only disgraceful but testament to the Left’s growing problem with intolerance.
