From California and Arizona to France and Italy, the global company most under literal, physical attack at this perilous moment is none other than Elon Musk's Tesla. Seemingly everywhere one looks, anti-Tesla fanatics are protesting outside Tesla dealerships, looting and burning down Tesla vehicles, and assaulting Tesla drivers themselves. All of this raw, unmitigated anarchy comes, it seems, in the purported name of demonstrating against Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO who is now also a close Trump ally and the head of the new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency.

Undoubtedly, many of these miscreants are itinerant "professional protestors"—the precise same scoundrels who looted and vandalized to the tune of billions of dollars in property damage during the George Floyd riots of 2020, and who have desecrated university campuses on behalf of a U.S. State Department-recognized Foreign Terrorist Organization (Hamas) ever since the Islamist pogrom against Israel on October 7, 2023. There is nothing new under the sun, we know from the Book of Ecclesiastes, and so it is true for these modern left-wing zealots as well.

But in truth, the Left has a much longer history when it comes to political violence. From the Jacobins during the 18th-century French Revolution to the would-be Marxist revolutionaries of the 19th century to the 20th-century Stalinist argument that a "few eggs must broken to make an omelet," politically justified violence has been associated with leftism since the very origins of what we might earnestly identify as a distinct political "Left." As I argued in a column last year: "Murderous political violence in the United States today is not an all-of-the-above phenomenon. ... MSNBC's daily on-air histrionics to the contrary notwithstanding, all sides are not equally culpable for the terrible situation America finds itself in today."

The "Tesla Takedown" campaign, like the Black Lives Matter destruction and the pro-Hamas looting that preceded it, isn't "justice." Not at all. It's domestic terrorism, plain and simple. And it must be treated and prosecuted as such. Thankfully, it seems like Attorney General Pam Bondi is up to the challenge. But we have a long way to go to restore the moral imperative of the rule of law. And Democrats would do the nation they purport to care about a great favor if they engaged in some honest introspection about the utter destructiveness of their party's street hooligan/activist wing. Perhaps they can start that introspection today.

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