Democrats silence is damning as leftist violence explodes

Another Donald Trump presidential term, another spate of violence going largely ignored — or even smirked at — by Democrats and their media friends.Tesla dealerships are being firebombed and shot at, while Tesla vehicles are vandalized and their owners assaulted.Trump-supporting influencers are getting “swatted,” set up for dangerous police encounters by opponents who phone in hoax distress calls.Relatives of Trump-aligned public figures — including the sister of US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Elon Musk’s brother — are receiving bomb threats.This cannot go on.The multiple attacks on Teslas aren’t mere vandalism.This is terrorism exactly as the dictionary describes it: “The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.”These “vandals” are terrorizing Tesla the company, as well as Tesla owners — going so far as to dox them with an online map — all because they don’t like the opinions of its CEO.It’s calculated to scare, to terrorize, people away from driving Teslas in order to apply political pressure on Musk.It’s “nothing short of domestic terrorism,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday.The Justice Department has already charged several perpetrators, she said, in cases that could carry five-year mandatory minimum sentences.Five years is a good start — but it’s not enough.

This kind of antisocial political barbarity is utterly unacceptable in a free country.Threats of violence cannot be allowed to curtail our freedom of speech.Nor should the extended families of public figures face threats to their lives and safety.The siblings of a Supreme Court justice or the head of DOGE did not choose a public life, and bullying them is disgusting.Swatting, too is on the rise, with more than a dozen incidents aimed at right-leaning media figures reported in just the last 10 days.“This isn’t about politics,” FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday on X.

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