[T]his is deadly serious because the hysteria driving the critics of the President and Elon Musk is disturbing and dangerous.

On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of debating this topic with former Biden White House official Neera Tanden over on CNN. When given the opportunity to unequivocally denounce recent violence and vandalism directed at Musk's company Telsa, Tanden deflected and dissembled.

'Anyone who commits violence against Tesla or Congress or anyone else should be put in jail 1,000 percent, but that should not stifle dissent or opposition to Elon Musk,' she said.

Of course, Tanden points to the January 6 riots -- a shameful day that I have condemned at every chance -- because she would rather debate a strawman than face facts.

The truth of the matter is that mobs are not descending on Capitol Hill any longer - they're targeting Telsa. And Tanden won't clearly condemn it.

In cities across the country, Tesla vehicles, dealerships and charging stations have been vandalized, firebombed, shot at and otherwise attacked.

On Wednesday, a website - that I will not name - reportedly published the personal information of Tesla owners and an interactive map that uses an image of a Molotov cocktail as a cursor.

President Trump has labeled the violence as domestic terrorism and I couldn't agree more. But flip on your TV sets and you'll hear America's leading liberals reveling in the mayhem.

Take Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the hapless buffoon who recently ran for vice president on Kamala Harris's 2024 'Joy' campaign.

'I'm not a vindictive person or anything, but I take great pleasure in the fact that [Musk's] life is going to get very, very difficult,' he admitted during a town hall event on Tuesday.

There's a word for taking pleasure in another person's pain: sadism.

During Tim's rant, he pulled out his iPhone to reveal that he has belatedly added a stock widget to his home screen so he can watch Tesla's recent declining stock values - he said it gives him 'a little boost.'

(For the record, while Telsa stock has fallen in recent weeks, it is still trading above its price just five months ago and is worth more than General Motors.)

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President Trump has labeled the violence as domestic terrorism and I couldn't agree more...

Far worse than Walz's hypocrisy is the fact he is justifying a manic anti-Telsa frenzy.

On Tuesday, late night 'comedian' Jimmy Kimmel cheered Tesla's recent stock drop (as his leftist audience applauded wildly). Then he stared into the camera and said -- with all the sarcasm he could muster -- 'Please don't vandalize... don't ever vandalize Tesla vehicles,' pausing dramatically to make sure you got the joke.

To me, his message was clear, ABC's Kimmel endorses the criminal destruction of Telsa cars.

Kimmel stared into the camera and said with all the sarcasm he could muster � 'Please don't vandalize� don't ever vandalize Tesla vehicles,' pausing dramatically to make sure you got the joke.

For sure, the Left has condoned destruction when it suited them in the past -- whether it was justifying the violence of the George Floyd riots, or harassing Trump officials in public, or censoring speech on social media. And just as they smeared Trump as a dictator and a Nazi -- claiming he would cancel all future elections if he won and that he would tear up the US Constitution -- Elon now faces the wrath of Leftists who don't consider the consequences of their rhetoric.

'People are legitimately upset,' said Tanden on CNN.

Perhaps, but there's nothing 'legitimate' about domestic terrorism.

If Democrats can't summon the courage to say that then they have no business calling themselves patriots.

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@AceofSpadesHQ

very serious and important question for you, @KrystalBall and all the other neolib revolutionaries. I have a strong disagreement with you. Do I and other MAGA voters have a right to set your cars and businesses on fire? Let us know so we can all play by the same rules.

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@AceofSpadesHQ

The days of the left's claim to the exclusive right to political violence are OVER, @KrystalBall. If political violence is permissible, you better believe the right will partake in the orgy of arson and assault.

So choose carefully if you really want a civil war.

I don't like to talk about political violence, and I have avoided it before. But now "respectable" members of the media left are calling for political violence and it's time to go on the record:

The left is going to protect its terrorists. When they ago to trial, leftwingers will indulge in jury nullification and let their terrorists free to terrorize again.

They will cheer this as a victory. In fact, they will have engineered a bloody defeat.

Tokyo Rose was not "protected" just because she was part of the media. She was a propagandist for an enemy. The propaganda officers of a terrorist army are valid targets in war.

Media types who sign on to be the propagandists of domestic terrorists are themselves enemies and therefore #Eligible for the same treatment they urge for their enemies.

This is a delicate moment. I warn the left: You are not immune. If you call for domestic terrorism, you are yourselves perfectly valid, #Eligible targets for the same criminal behavior.

Either we all agree that political violence is unjustifiable in all cases, or we all agree that political violence is justifiable in all cases.

The left has made its choice. I warn you that the right is considering a very similar choice.

Lefty media types assume they're somehow untouchable. They're not. They're ringleaders. If the left imagines that they can agitate for their antifa Street Militias to beat up conservatives and destroy their property and set fire to their businesses again, and the right will meekly take it as we took it in the Summer of Love, I am providing them with the vital intelligence that We are no longer submitting to your reign of violence peaceably.

We also can stage "fiery but mostly peaceful 'protests.'"

Remember that your hero, the DEI president Barack Obama, used a drone strike to assassinate an American citizen for propagandizing for terrorism. Not actually committing it by his own hand, but by cravenly urging others to do his bloody work for him.

He was deemed a valid target in warfare. His American citizenship did not protect him, nor did his nominal claim to be a "political commentator."

I know what the left believes: They have used their propaganda powers to establish the double-standard that the left is justified in burning down car dealerships and entire neighborhood whereas the right should be sent to prison for ten years merely for "parading in a public place."

But the left must understand: Your propaganda powers are at their lowest level in all of history. Witness the election of Trump 2.0.

We are done with the "domestic terrorism for thee but not for me" regime.

You are playing an extremely dangerous game. I think you have the right to be warned of the danger you're placing yourselves in.

Please desist from the path of madness and violence you're on or you will find the right joins you on this bloody path.

Is that what you want?

Everyone on the right has a Little List. Do you really want us to start checking people and businesses off our Little Lists?

War is easy to get into and hard to get out of. Please stop before we stop asking you to stop and simply embrace the #NewRules you've created.

The left seems to think they're the only ones "smart" enough and "brave" enough to embrace political violence. I've got news for you: A lot of us on the right have been thinking about this too.

Abandon your belief that you, the weakest and poorest-armed people in the country, can impose your will on the rest of the country through domestic terrorism, or get ready for the right to start taking their own trophies.

And get ready for "respectable" voices on the right to do exactly what you're doing -- making excuses for domestic terrorism or even actively encouraging it.