Are we missing the point?

Who is being targeted here? Musk? Perhaps so, but they are also targeting people who have bought these cars, are they not? The people who bought these cars are now afraid to be associated with Tesla. They wish to make people people afraid to buy these cars, or to be seen in them.

There was never any economic reason to buy these cars. People who bought them were virtue signalling their "enviromental sensitivity". Now they want to take all that "virtue" out of owning and driving these vehicles, and to replace that "virtue" with hatred and fear. And the effect is to punish Elon Musk. Maybe they'd like to kill Musk, too.

The effect is to take out the guy who made electric cars feasible, when all the prior efforts to make electric cars cool had failed. What they are really punishing is Musk's wishes to follow his own course. If he made cars that a whole lot of people would be better off owning, then they would also be punishing the whole world. Then why? Just because he defied THEM? What makes THEM so high and mighty? Hell hath no fury like the liberal scorned.

These people are trying to take away the people's right to choose what they want to drive, even if the reasons are silly. Tesla can stand or fall on its merits, not because they pissed off a bunch of leftist assholes. It was, after all, only leftist assholes who bought the damned things in the first place. Whoop-de-doo. They punish themselves. Damn idiots.