Revolutionary-era French statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand once quipped that his country’s exiled Bourbon monarchs had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
Today, in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, Democrats have begun channeling their inner Bourbons.
According to the UK’s Daily Mail, slick-haired Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, whose aristocratic sensibilities once prompted him to exempt himself from his own COVID restrictions, plans to take action tantamount to retribution against Tesla CEO and Trump ally Elon Musk — a plan denounced as “foolish” by Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California.

Newsom’s plan would allow for a state tax rebate on the purchase of electric cars.
The plan, however, would reward only those purchasers who buy from struggling EV manufacturers. Tesla currently dominates the California EV market with a 55 percent …