Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”

The Left cannot tolerate dissent, but it absolutely hates a heretic. Elon Musk has transformed from climate hero to anti-bureaucratic villain, and the Left’s shock troops are wielding Molotov cocktails at the most accessible symbol of his influence: the Tesla.

Of course, in doing so, these vandals don’t harm Elon Musk, the hated godfather of DOGE. Rather, they harm the men and women who purchased the electric cars Musk’s company created. These electric car owners may be more likely to agree with leftist causes, but it seems the vandals aren’t afraid to target their own allies in their mad hatred.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has rightly described these attacks as a form of domestic terrorism, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said the bureau is investigating them. It seems the vandals have a tool to aid them in this grisly spree: a map claiming to plot the location of every Tesla owner across the United States. A website called “Dogequest” claims to have published the personal information of Tesla owners across the country, and it turns the user’s cursor into a Molotov cocktail. The site’s operators, who also posted the exact locations of Tesla dealerships, say they will only remove personal information if the Tesla owners provide proof that they sold their electric vehicles, 404 Media reported.

As a longtime observer of the Left’s Soviet-style tactics to enforce its ideology on the American people, I can’t help but think of a similar map that aims to instill terror in the Left’s ideological opponents.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which gained its reputation by suing KKK groups into bankruptcy, publishes a “hate map” that smears mainstream conservative and Christian groups. The map includes Klan chapters, but alongside them it plots parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty, Christian law firms like Alliance Defending Freedom, and immigration groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

The SPLC uses a weasel-y definition of “hate group” to justify demonizing those who dissent from its far-left agenda. As I wrote in my book, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” the map also doubles as a fundraising tool—as the SPLC adds more organizations to the map, it spreads the message that hate is increasing, and only the SPLC can be trusted to counter it.