Focusing on the 20 or so unknown people who have burned #Tesla s rather than the remarkable success of a grassroots campaign to devalue Musk’s brand is dishonest and just amplifies the right’s propaganda.
The right response is, ‘when you let a deranged billionaire buy and rampage through our gov causing massive harm to the American people you should expect outrage. In a country that venerates violent opposition to tyrants, you should expect a few to take it to extremes’ #doge #elonmusk
@JoshuaHolland Fox news seems to be trying to convince its base that hammer welding vigilantes are everywhere taking whacks at any Tesla they see.
That fear campaign seems... fine to me? Fox viewers weren't going to buy Teslas anyway and this just cements it. They're hobbling any "we gotta buy Teslas to support Trump" movement on the right in its cradle by turning up the fear. I don't like scapegoating the poor saps caught up in the hysteria, but if they want to generally convince the public that it is dangerous to buy Teslas that seems fine to me.
At least this is a useful pivot from before, when right wing media was trying to convince their viewers that EVs in general were battery-powered death traps. Now only Teslas are!
Joshua Holland
C. Scott Ananian (he/him)