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Elon Musk is in the rabid left’s crosshairs — but he’s not the true target

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Democrats are having a communist moment — yet again.

From New York to Colorado, the most radical candidates in multiple races are poised to win in November, dragging the party ever more leftward. 

Just as in every other communist revolution, their first goal is to make foes of society’s most productive and wealthy people.

And right now the richest of them all, Elon Musk, is Public Enemy No. 1.

What’s happening to Musk is straight from the pages of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” playbook, specifically Rule No. 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.”

The torrent of abuse directed at Musk has increased dramatically in the last few weeks, ever since Musk’s investments crossed him into “trillionaire on paper” territory.

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That’s when Democrats like California Rep. Ro Khanna and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren started agitating to seize Musk’s assets — because it’s just so gosh-darn unfair for him to profit from his unbelievable successes.

“A 5% tax on Elon’s trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American,” Khanna ludicrously wrote on June 5.

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