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. Some saw owning a Tesla as a statement of virtue signaling that you are doing your part to save the world and 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 10 or 15 years—particularly highlighted by the $2 billion destruction of national urban properties that came about after the police detention death of George Floyd—it is that destructive riots are not organically spontaneous.
The trigger events for riots are understood well in advance, and 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 bused 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 and very few rioters arrested and sentenced to jail time in 2020 and the years that followed, it is little wonder that this is happening again. Ostensibly, the domestic terror attacks on dozens of Tesla dealerships nationwide and random vandalism and destruction attempts of Tesla vehicles are being done to protest and stop Elon Musk and his DOGE audits of federal government agencies and NGOs. Trump’s DOGE initiative is the most important initiative ever undertaken by a Republican administration because it is dismantling the administrative state by unmasking waste, fraud and abuse and defunding the deep state.
One thing should be clear to everyone now: The deep state is not going down without a fight. But the real agenda and targets go beyond Tesla and Elon Musk. Donald Trump is the ultimate target for he is the first American leader to exhibit the courage and persistence to take on domestic enemies attempting to subvert the Constitution with a mind to totally defeat them.
Trump has now connected the dots that America has actually been going through its own color revolution with three stages: 1) Demoralization of the American people driven by God having been taken out of the American culture; 2) Weakening America by dividing the American people along racial, gender, ethnic lines; 3) Creating a crisis (like a civil war) from which the country cannot recover.
America has already passed through the first two stages of a color revolution and is now at the crisis stage. If we have learned anything about the enemies of America, we know they are unscrupulous, unprincipled, and unrestricted by any traditional norms.
It is impossible to forecast the future, but because Trump’s enemies are likely to get more desperate rather than back down, it's possible the domestic terror attacks on Tesla dealerships and privately owned Tesla vehicles could be followed this summer with major false flag events.
For that reason, American patriots need to prayerfully connect the dots and thread the needles of possible entrapment scenarios. As we approach America’s 250th birthday on July 4, 2026, we must remember that vigilance is the price of liberty, and it requires us to keep our eye on the prize of a restored and victorious constitutional republic, and the defeat of a corrupt administrative state.
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Scott S. Powell is senior fellow at Discovery Institute and a member of the Committee on the Present Danger-China. His timeless book, Rediscovering America, has been #1 Amazon New Release in the history genre for eight weeks. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637581599. Reach him at scottp@discovery.org
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