When his son’s football game was over the weekend, former CNN political writer Chris Cillizza revealed on Wednesday that his Tesla had a” Musk is a Nazi” sign on it. Clinton described the incident as yet another illustration of how the democratization of daily living is “making us all crazy” on his Substack.
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Elon Musk and Tesla’s elections are unique to them, he said, making this my second time seeing them.  ,
But there was a deeper, more miserable realization beneath his thoughts.
When he purchased his Tesla, a Model 3 that he had purchased around 2019 or 2020, Cillizza assumed that liberals would be the real threat. Because America is about real engines, no electric vehicles, he said,” the big problem I had was sort of pro-MAGA people keying the vehicle or smashing it.” That was the way it was again therefore, didn’t it? If you bought a Tesla, you could be coding yourself as an environmental-liberal-wacko-communist.
Was it, while? Was there ever a period when Tesla users actually believed that liberals would desecrate their vehicles?
But I’ll stop there. Fast forward five years, and Tesla is now the exact same type of person who once feared from the proper and adored electrical cars. Owning a Tesla has turned into a lightning rod for left-wing anger then that Elon Musk has become persona non grata among Democrats and leftists, first for buying Twitter and turning it into a free speech program, and then for supporting President Trump’s campaign to major DOGE.
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Elon Musk has since become a persona non-grata for the non-MAGA crowd, Cillizza said, which is remarkable that now, five or six years later, I can get this on my vehicle.
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He still retains the sarcasm. Tesla was once ranked 8th in Axios/Harris ‘ business model positions in 2021, but it dropped to 95th in 2025. According to Cillizza, this significant transition occurred after Musk’s political affiliation with the right waned. But instead of the conservatives who previously criticized the brand, the very people who previously celebrated it are now, literally attacking it.
He compared Chick-fil-A to another battlefield of the culture war.  ,
Ages ago, he tweeted that he wanted a sandwich from a Chick-fil-A and received numerous problems right away. ” I hope the love tastes good,” was a popular adage. Although Chick-fil-A has long been accused of upholding liberal principles, its reputation has endured. It placed 26th in the same Axios/Harris surveys, which is much better than Tesla.
If everything has to be democratic at this point, Cillizza seems to have a bigger problem. I don’t believe that eating a burger from a Chick-fil-A is a social speech. He said,” I like Chick-fil-A, so it’s a statement.” I didn’t purchase a Tesla to back someone or no back people. I purchased the car because I liked it and thought it was nice.
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While he claims to be neutral and that he is” not an dissident” and doesn’t “hate Elon Musk,” the tragedy forced him to confront a reality that some liberals refute: It’s not the right that is policing habits through public shaming and theft. It’s on the returned.
He should have known this sooner, which is unfortunate.
Not people wearing MAGA clothes or operating pickup trucks keying his Tesla, but rather people in MAGA clothes. The self-declared accepting left was the target of the cancel-culture audience, which had signs calling Musk a Nazi. Cillizza said,” This person clearly rarely met me.” But they still targeted him because, in their eyes, owning a Tesla is then considered a murder.
Cillizza imagined that terrible conservatives would deface his Tesla—oops! Although it’s amusing that he finds himself laughing at communist intolerance, it’s obvious he hasn’t been paying attention. Because we reported the details, PJ Media visitors were better off. Join PJ Media VIP with the discount code FIGHT and grin at our democratic hypocrisy with us.
