Minnesota Governor Tim Walz picked the wrong moment to go after Elon Musk—again.

On Wednesday, Walz took to social media to blast Musk over reports that he plans to scale back his role with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) next month. The Politico story he linked to acknowledged Musk would still be involved as an advisor, but that didn’t stop Walz from taking a cheap shot.

“He just destroyed your retirement plan,” Walz claimed, apparently trying to suggest that Musk’s Tesla challenges are the fault of the man himself, rather than the campaign of political sabotage targeting the company from the left.

But observers were quick to point out one small problem: Walz’s own administration has millions of dollars invested in Tesla through Minnesota’s state pension fund. If anyone’s destroying retirement plans, it’s the guy trashing the company he’s invested in—on purpose.

Conservative commentators didn’t let it slide. As Nick Arama of RedState noted, “Here he is running down the company where his employees’ money is, yet again.”

And this isn’t the first time Walz has taken swipes at Musk. He’s previously joined other Democrats in mocking Musk’s partnership with the Trump administration, sneering at his efforts to cut waste and reform bloated federal bureaucracies. The irony, of course, is that Musk has arguably done more to restore accountability to government agencies in six months than most elected Democrats have done in six years.

Walz’s attack also comes on the heels of a vandalism spree targeting Teslas in Minnesota. Authorities arrested a state employee last month for allegedly firebombing six Tesla vehicles. So far, Walz hasn’t said a word about it—and some critics are now asking whether his rhetoric helped incite the violence.

“Was this suspect influenced by Tim Walz’s words?” RedState asked pointedly.

While Musk has made clear he’s stepping back from day-to-day DOGE operations, he also emphasized he’ll continue supporting President Trump’s anti-corruption reforms as needed through the end of the term.

“I think I’ll continue to spend a day or two per week on government matters for as long as the president would like me to do so,” Musk said earlier this week.

But to Walz and others on the left, the real offense is not Musk’s level of involvement—it’s that he’s had any success at all. Whether it’s rooting out waste in government spending, slashing federal contracts for DEI consultants, or exposing political bias at bloated agencies like USAID, Musk’s presence in D.C. has triggered Democrats at every turn.

The backlash has been especially pronounced because Musk’s reforms are popular. His push to remove ESG strings from federal infrastructure grants, his shutdown of federal media monitoring programs, and his crackdowns on off-book government contractors have all been applauded by watchdog groups and industry leaders.

SEMA, the country’s largest automotive manufacturing trade group, even credited Musk with restoring “significant hope to our industry” in a letter to Trump on Monday.

So while Walz is busy posting on X and dreaming of a national platform he’ll never reach, Musk is actually making things happen—cutting red tape, lowering costs, and exposing rot across the bureaucracy.

That’s why the left keeps lashing out. And why their attacks keep backfiring.