Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger has accused MAGA of brazen hypocrisy over its fury at attacks on Tesla.
Kinzinger, who served as a representative for Illinois from 2011 to 2023 and is vehemently anti-Donald Trump, contrasted the fury at Tesla being boycotted and its cars being vandalized with how Budweiser’s work with transgender social media creator Dylan Mulvaney set conservatives alight with anger in 2023.
“So, here’s an interesting question. Why is it that whenever Republicans decide to boycott a company like Bud Light or Disney, they’re doing it because they’re victims of that company?” he said.
“Yet when America decides to boycott a company like Tesla, because the CEO is running around telling Americans what they can and can’t live without so he can have a tax break, then all of a sudden they’re victims again.”
He then said Republicans have a victim mentality. “So they’re victims when they’re being boycotted and they’re victims when they’re boycotting,” he reasoned.
“That’s because Donald Trump has made his fortune and his political career on being a victim. And Republicans have learned the same thing, always be a victim. That’s not a very masculine trait to me.”
Kinzinger recently dared Trump to charge him for his work with the House Jan. 6 committee in defiance of the pardon then-president Joe Biden issued while still in office.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel also touched on the hypocrisy on his show Thursday. On Jimmy Kimmel Live! he played clips of MAGA figures like JD Vance and Fox News host Sean Hannity criticizing a joke where he sarcastically pleaded with the public not to burn Teslas.
“But if you try to taser a cop on the steps of the Capitol, we’ve got your back,” he then quipped, before making a reference to the MAGA Bud Light saga. “Everyone needs to crack open a Bud Light and relax already,” he said.
