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Environmental agendas? Traditionally Democrat. Immigrant advocates? Usually Democrats. Promoting labor causes? Also Democrats.
Until now, when the party's absolute hatred for all things President Donald Trump, and his Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk, has prompted members to abandon their long-held ideals.
Now, according to constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University, "Democrats have shown that very self-destructive quality of rage in adopting anti-immigrant, anti-free speech, anti-labor, and even anti-environmental positions to get at Donald Trump or his supporters."
He was referencing the exploding political violence of the left, especially that which has targeted Musk and his companies – even innocent owners of Tesla vehicles.
"What is most striking, however, is how Democrats have torched their core beliefs to pursue a scorched Earth campaign against Musk," he said.
The Democrats now are at risk, he said, of becoming "the very thing that they despise in others."
In fact, they are "jettisoning their most cherished values to strike out at those they hate."
He said the real issue is that those "rage addicts" "like it; they need it."
Even their advocacy for funding from billionaires, like George Soros, becomes a failing when another billionaire, Elon Musk, does it, because he's been supporting Republicans.
Such "scorched earth" actions now have infested the actions of Democrat lawmakers in New York, who are trying to "weaponize" state laws against Musk, he said.
He cited plans by state Sen. Pat Fahy, an Albany Democrat, who wants to ban Musk's Tesla corporation from direct sales in the state.
That's despite Fahy's long advocacy for electric cars.
"The move will make it more difficult not just for Musk but other EV dealers to survive, but climate change policies be damned. Fahy and her colleagues want to get at Musk in any way they can," Turley explained.
Turley documented:
He noted in California, labor advocates opposed more work at SpaceX that would benefit workers, because of Musk's connections.
And he cited the Democrats' "greatest hypocrisy" in their willingness to abandon environmental priorities "for political revenge."
The Fahy issue is that Tesla was allowed to sell cars directly to consumers at some locations because it was viewed as good for the state and the environment.
"The question is, what do Democrats like Fahy now stand for when everything they are is now defined by those they hate?"
