It seems that the Senior Associate Editor at Atlantic magazine, Saahil Desai, was not aware of how much he revealed about leftist intolerance of political diversity to the point of seeming absolutely demented when he wrote a story about an experiment he conducted. He decided to drive around the Washington D.C. area for a day in a Tesla Cybertruck in order to see what reactions it would inspire.
The result of his experiment will probably not be pleasing to many Atlantic readers due to the discomfort caused by Desai holding up an inadvertent mirror revealing their toxic attitudes. Oh, and Desai's praise for the Tesla Cybertruck will probably make them even less happy.
The very first paragraph of Desai's Saturday article, "My Day Inside America’s Most Hated Car," paints a very poor picture of the prevalent attitude among his fellow liberals:
On the first Sunday of spring, surrounded by row houses and magnolia trees, I came to a horrifying realization: My mom was right. I had been flipped off at least 17 times, called a “motherfucker” (in both English and Spanish), and a “fucking dork.” A woman in a blue sweater stared at me, sighed, and said, “You should be ashamed of yourself.” All of this because I was driving a Tesla Cybertruck.
It only took until the very next paragraph for Desai's revelation about liberal attitudes to go from very bad to even worse:
As I idled with the windows down on a street in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, a woman glared at me from her front porch: “Fuck you, and this truck, and Elon,” she yelled. “You drive a Nazi truck.” She slammed her front door shut, and then opened it again. “I hope someone blows your shit up.”
And liberal hate, inspired by the mere sight of a Cybertruck, continued into the third paragraph:
Earlier that day, my first stop was the heart of the resistance: the Dupont Circle farmers’ market. The people there wanted to see the organic asparagus and lion’s-mane mushrooms. What they did not want to see was a stainless-steel, supposedly bulletproof Cybertruck. Every red light created new moments for mockery. “You fucker!” yelled a bicyclist as he pedaled past me on P Street. The diners eating brunch on the sidewalk nearby laughed and cheered. Then came the next stoplight: A woman eating outside at Le Pain Quotidien gave me the middle finger for a solid 20 seconds, all without interrupting her conversation.
After some more observations of unhinged leftist hate, Desai wrote something that could earn him eternal enmity from the very same liberals he was describing. He PRAISED the performance of the Cybertruck:
Over and over again, as pedestrians and drivers alike glared at me, I had to remind myself: It’s just a car. And it’s kind of a cool one, too. It can apparently outrace a Porsche 911, while simultaneously towing a Porsche 911. Or it can power a house for up to three days. My day in the Cybertruck wasn’t extremely hard-core, but the eight onboard cameras made city driving more bearable than I was expecting. Regardless of what you do with it, the car is emissions-free. “The underlying technology of the Cybertruck is amazing,” Loren McDonald, an EV analyst at the firm Paren, told me. And the exterior undersells just how ridiculous it is. Just before I returned the car on Monday morning, I took an impromptu Zoom meeting from the giant in-car touchscreen. It has a single windshield wiper that is so long—more than five feet—that Musk has compared it to a “katana.”
Attention Elon Musk! Your Cybertruck has just received a GLOWING REVIEW from the pages of Atlantic magazine. Perhaps you can quote Atlantic's senior associate Saahil Desai in your Cybertruck advertising material. And considering the source of the review, we know that Mr. Desai had to be over the top impressed by the Cybertruck despite all the deranged leftist hate directed towards it.
