What is a little ideological corruption among friends, former vice presidential candidates, and progressive district attorneys?
Such is the question in Minnesota, where a 33-year-old man was discovered to be vandalizing Teslas. The man is Dylan Adams, who caused $20,000 in damages because Tesla CEO Elon Musk is working as an adviser to the Trump administration to cut waste from federal departments. Musk has become a rallying point for liberal outrage because protecting the lifetime security of wealthy federal bureaucrats is one of their top priorities.
Adams is not just any liberal loon who thought he was fighting the power. He is employed by the Minnesota government, specifically the state’s Department of Human Services. This is particularly interesting because Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), a failed vice presidential candidate, has been leading the charge against Musk. Walz has called Musk a “dips***,” celebrated Tesla stock dropping while its cars were being vandalized, and said he could beat up supporters of President Donald Trump.
So you have a state government employee who vandalized people’s cars to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars in damages, and he works for a governor who is stoking Musk-hate and glorifying political violence. What could complete this trifecta of liberal ideological decay? How about a woke DA letting Adams off the hook?
Mary Moriarty is the Hennepin County, Minnesota, DA. As with all pro-criminal DAs, Moriarty is a lifelong defense attorney who took control of the prosecutor’s office to tilt the balance of power in the criminal justice system entirely to criminals and accused criminals. Moriarty is incredibly weak on crime. She’s even had cases taken out of her control and given to Democratic state Attorney General Keith Ellison.
Moriarty has gone extra soft on Adams, letting him off the hook almost entirely for his crimes. Adams will not face charges. Instead, he will be put in a diversion program. Adams will face no jail time unless he fails to meet the program’s requirements, including paying back the victims. And if he fails to meet those requirements, you can be sure that the DA who wants to give probation and no jail time to criminals who commit murders or molest teenagers will make sure Adams receives justice. (Or she will probably just give him probation. Who is to say?)
Walz has lamented he’s not the “best spokesperson” as Democrats missed “things that improved people’s lives.”
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It is a classic example of how broken liberalism has developed over the past decade. A state employee, fueled by hateful rhetoric from a prominent Democrat, destroyed property because he was mad about politics. He will then escape almost all consequences because a public defender hijacked the DA’s office. All that is missing is an antisemitic mob of college students.
Minnesota has sneakily been one of the worst states in the country over the past few years, going back to the Black Lives Matter riots that erupted in Minneapolis. Between going soft on unrepentant criminals and subjecting us to Walz, it looks like the state wants more credit for the hatred, division, and lawlessness it promotes.