Up until a couple of years ago Elon Musk was loved by the Democrats, and even most of the rest of the left except the Far Left, who naturally hate rich pricks. I recall seeing Hollywood start Matt Damon driving Musk’s first Tesla, a convertible, with Musk in the passenger seat.

It’s safe to say that Matt Damon would not be caught dead doing that.

But the following is from the East Coast and if you’re in the mood for having a good, hearty laugh at wealthy, privileged Leftists baring their tortured souls then this is for you:

Even when Musk decided to waste a chunk of his fortune on buying Twitter, so that he could restore accounts belonging to right-wing dissemblers such as Donald Trump and Alex Jones, Tesla-lovers managed to feel pretty good about themselves. Since then, however, Musk has gone full MAGA. Among the highlights: he has endorsed the antisemitic ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory, wondered why no one tries to assassinate the Democratic nominee for president, and pledged to give Trump’s campaign $45 million a month…This past weekend, Musk showed up at a Trump rally and reiterated his belief that the country and its Constitution could not continue to exist if Trump weren’t reelected.

Among my friends who drive Teslas, Musk’s name comes up a lot in conversation, like an embarrassing skin condition you wish you could ignore. Some manage ably to compartmentalize. A neighbor I see at the dog park rails against Trump voters but raves about his self-driving Model S…. Other Tesla drivers feel stigmatized and vacillate about selling their cars. One friend affixed a magnet to her Tesla that says: ‘I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy.’

That’s American Lefty Matt Bai, writing in the Washington Post, with a headline that’s even more painfully funny than the quote above:

The Left’s Elon Musk dilemma

Nothing I can think of has plunged liberal friends of mine into a kind of moral anguish quite like Tesla

The horror. The horror. The lives of voluble desperation amidst the struggles of Matt Bai’s Tesla-driving friends!

Christ, I wonder what other “moral anguish” problems rock their privileged lives? Worries about the poor amidst rising energy prices perhaps? The poor being able to afford a car? Being able to afford food? Being able to authentically cosplay at being concerned about all that by voting Democrat, especially Kamala Harris

At some point you probably stop laughing and wish ill for these awful fucking people, ill most appropriately in the form of becoming a lot poorer than they are. They’ll still have “Pronouns” in their work email signature and the “Hate has no home here” sign will still be in their front yard.