Tesla dealerships and individual owners are increasingly becoming the targets of domestic terrorism from unhinged, leftist Trump-haters who see the attacks as morally justified. When "The Daily Show" started a recent segment on the attacks on Teslas, the crowd cheered the firebombing of privately owned cars and dealerships:
News reporter: "Tonight the FBI and ATF now investigating multiple cases of possible arson targeting Teslas and cybertrucks …." (Studio applause in the background)
Daily Show host: "Wow! You guys like petty acts of domestic terrorism, huh? Cool."
Dr. Richard Land, president emeritus at Southern Evangelical Seminary, says that response is the logical extension of a culture that in early December cheered after Luigi Mangione allegedly shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the back simply because Thompson worked for a healthcare company.
Soon after the assassination, a poll conducted by Emerson College revealed that 41% of respondents in the 18-29 age range considered the shooter's actions either "completely acceptable" or "somewhat acceptable." Land contends that sections of the American public – and disproportionately, young people – have abandoned the moral belief that some things are always right and some things are always wrong.
"If you abandon that belief, then eventually anything is permissible," he tells AFN. "When you have [more than] one-third of American young people … saying that what Mangione [allegedly] did was either alright or maybe alright, we've got a significant problem."
Land argues the Left has justified harming or even killing anyone they disagree with. "Why are they doing that?" he wonders aloud – then answers his own question:
"Because they have been brainwashed by critical race theory into believing that America is an irredeemably racist society that was founded on racism and … injustice, and that the only way to remake American society is to tear it down."
The Emerson poll shows that with increased age, individuals found the shooter's actions more and more "unacceptable." Eighty-one percent of those 60 and older thought those actions were unacceptable – roughly twice the percentage (40%) of those 18 to 29 years old.
