On Tuesday, Musk announced that he's taking a step back from his role at DOGE starting next month and "allocating far more of [his] time to Tesla."

His exit was always planned; so-called "special government employees" like Musk can only legally stick around in advisory roles for 130 consecutive days.

But his announcement served another purpose: soothing panicky Tesla shareholders, who have seen the company's net income tank 71% in the last quarter, with many blaming his break from the company combined with his alliance with Orange Man.

Musk always knew he'd be risking harm to Tesla but was willing to make the sacrifice for the good of the nation.

Yet a shocking number of Trump-Musk haters actually waged sociopathic attacks on Tesla vehicles and innocent dealerships and owners.

Democratic leaders encouraged this terroristic insanity, either with their silence or by smearing Musk as a big, bad "oligarch" and thus stoking the flames.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ghoulishly gloated over Tesla's falling stock prices, just weeks before a Minnesota government employee was busted for causing $21,000 in damage to random Teslas.

One would think progressives would cheer the guy who built Tesla into the biggest seller of electric vehicles in the United States, a project he took on explicitly to fight climate change.