Natasha Cohen, 46, is a New York therapist who appears to be stuck in the denial stage of Kübler-Ross. After she was arrested in the latest case of political violence by the left, Cohen blamed Elon Musk for her actions, saying that she is “living in terror every day.” The rationalization is becoming a familiar refrain as the rise in political violence becomes undeniable. On Friday, New York Times Chief White House Correspondent and MSNBC Political Analyst Peter Baker came under fire for admitting that leftist violence is on the rise, but noting that Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric “might excite people to take action.”
Cohen was caught on videotape (above) leaving a brick with a swastika and the word “Nazi” on a Tesla and dumping trash on the car.
The therapist, who works with children, immediately reverted to one of her clients and blamed others for her actions. This was all Elon’s fault:
“Every time I see those cars, I see Elon Musk saluting the country as a Nazi…I made a mistake because I’m basically living in terror every day that the country is turning into Nazi Germany. I’m truly terrified, because Elon was unelected and they’re deporting migrants without a trial.”
In other words, she is a victim who felt compelled to terrorize neighbors. She is now facing hate crime charges.
In the meantime, a Florida woman joined the ranks of those attacking Teslas with a novel twist. Yamaris Marrero, 45, of Hallandale Beach, Florida, used a “large wad” of chewing gum to cause nearly $3,000 in damage to the EV’s door handle mechanism, police said, according to a local report. She was also charged with a hate crime.
Baker’s comment seemed to follow a series of rationalizations for leftist violence. On PBS’s “Washington Week,” Baker stated:
“On the physical violence part, and that has also been seen on both sides too, of course. President Trump was the target of two different assassination attempts last year. Just this last week, I think the would-be assassin of Brett Kavanaugh was sentenced, I think, in court, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) a number of years ago. But it does seem, at times, that Trump and his people seem to be more willing to use words like traitor and treasonous that might excite people to take action. And I think that’s the worry, what level of responsibility you have as a president, as a leader of this country, to try to tamp down the kind of passions that arise rather than stoke them.”
Of course, President Joe Biden was notorious for describing Trump and his supporters as enemies of democracy while Democratic leaders have called them “fascists” and “Nazis.” That does not appear relevant to covering the rise in leftist political violence.
Politicians and commentators have sought to excuse or explain the growing violence. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., explained to Joy Reid on MSNBC why Luigi Mangione allegedly murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Warren offered a “warning ” that “you can only push people so far.”
Others like former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz gushed over Mangione as homicidal but hunky: “Here’s this man who’s a revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart, he’s a person who seems like he’s this morally good man, which is hard to find.”
The point is that the people are being “triggered” by others holding opposing political views. It is a victimology that has been drilled into many on the left. They are merely reacting to “living in terror” after losing a democratic election.
We seem to be moving into a type of frenzied delusion on the left. It is reminiscent of the scene from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood where the cult member screams “George isn’t blind! You’re the blind one!”
Another clear example that the community of Psychology is a root cause of the current “Age of Rage”!!!!!!!!!
The one thing positive I can say for the democrat party is that they’ve revealed to America how many broken minds are in our society. Fortunately they’ve gravitated toward the democrat party and easily identified. Hillary Clinton wanted to deprogram the deplorable’s, her sights were on the wrong group.
Happy Easter, All.
Perhaps the parents of these awful people are to blame? They raised children, who grew into adults, who are not to blame for any of their bad acts – because they are victims of others and those others are the blameworthy. These awful people should have heard my parents’ admonition to me and my siblings to not be “holier than” someone else.
Jonathan, you can’t see how fanaticism is growing on both sides of the spectrum?….how the unhinged voices of the left and right drive mutual paranoia and violence ideation?
Trump: “I’m not joking about a 3rd term”. “Ukraine is responsible for starting the war”. “Canada, the 51st state”.
Democrats: “Bring Arbredo Garcia home”. “The best person to lead us out of this chaos is AOC”.
It’s not that everyone has gone mad. It’s that media producers choose to thrust failure in our faces to grab our attention. And, those who cannot distinguish reality from the manicured media trash-product coming across their screens truly believe the crazies are in full control, and destruction of our way-of-life is imminent.
Violence taken up based on paranoid misperceptions is as old as mankind.
The sane response is to mock the media-manipulated among us. A 3rd term?….only if you’re willing to wear Depends!
I missed the fanatics that violently opposed the COVID narratives and the destroy life as we knew it response in 2020, 2021, 2022. The fanatics all seem to be the same people!!!!! Those that oppose DJT, oppose America First, oppose anyone that questions the Democratic National Communist agenda, etc……………
This therapist has a problem. Her statement suggests a flight of ideas. It reflects disorganized thinking where thoughts may seem loosely connected or unrelated. You often see this in bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. This kind of makes you wonder about her being presently qualified as a therapist, especially with children. I would have to wonder if she is actually capable of a rational thought process.
I cannot blame all of these apparently unhinged people just on their political leanings. I have to place a great blame on our media, the lack of a balanced education and an almost total lack of understanding of history.
I feel that a lot of this is the unrelenting poison that the MSM pours out day by day. The media is so ill educated itself that it lacks awareness of its own shortcomings and cannot even reflect to any reasonable degree on its own bias. The leaders on the left certainly use it their advantage and actually make it worse. There used to be reasonable people on the left who could self reflect but they are rare now.
George W Bush was routinely called a Nazi as was Dick Cheney and many others in that administration and Harry Reid blatantly lied about Mitt Romney’s taxes on the Senate floor. And he was called a Nazi even as Obama tried to use his health plan from Massachusetts as the Affordable Care Act. If Bush and Romney were Nazi’s then I suppose that’s why the left thinks Trump is the Antichrist.
There was a lot of poison being flung by the left long before Trump. It has become hysterical because Trump is a real threat to bring down their whole house of cards and their gravy train.
If Cohen were not licensed in NY (or another state like it), someone should report her to the licensing board because her misconduct and mental state make her unfit to engage in therapy of others.
Problem is, that this mental illness infect those at the top, those on the “board” would give this women a medal, the DA & judges in New York are blind to providing true Justice. This list is long, but this leftist hate goes all the way to the top.
And it goes deep, into our literature, our fine arts, our history and it has invaded our churches and their theologies.
How do you undo such pervasive indoctrination ?
We see the blind stare of these progressive zombies and it is what we saw in Islamic jihadi suicide bombers – so convinced of their righteousness that no act against the infidel was beyond the pale.
I can see a similar flight of fanatics flying a plane into Mar a Lago just as easily as we witnessed bombings of Tesla dealers and, remembering Portland and Seattle, the utter anarchy of savages unhinged.
This is not over, it is just beginning.
GEB
Your analysis suggesting bipolar disorder or schizophrenia is right on the money.
Flight of ideas, pressure of thought and speech are highly suggestive of these diagnoses.
I have long suggested that John Say, a regular commenter here, has the same problem.
His comments are interminably long and incoherent.
His tangential thinking consisting of fleeting, random, disconnected thoughts only vaguely related to the topic at hand render his postings completely incomprehensible.
#. Agree, it’s msm. If all media were shut down including TV and movies the hysteria would end. Radio talk programming has become frenzied shrieking with pots and pans banging and laugh buttons nonsense. ALL media is programmed to create frenzy and hysteria.
If you aren’t waking up everyday and going to work that, too, is a problem.
Happy Easter, Christ has risen as evidence that people do not die but are reincarnated in another world. No one else has ever shown, given evidence of this truth. What can people do? Fix something broken today. Tear nothing to pieces and buy your own things with the work of your own hands. Someone needs something? Give them a job to do.
@Anonymous
Really. Your hashtags accomplish nothing here but to make you look like an idiot.
I also wonder about the severe Manish hair. I bet she just adores ratchet madcow.
Almost all Democrats and liberals are inside a woke fascist delusion bubble, which poses as what it used to be, the mainstream media and mainstream academia.
Turls: sounds like you’re with Marco, in this instance of criticizing the the left of even having the thought crime of wanting to emulate the right’s work on 1/6. This is why your nights should filled with shame about your social media influencing and surrogate work for fascism.
Sometimes when you go fishing, you may catch a fish. Trump’s Tesla Trap (T3) is working like a charm and catching the fringe leftists as they exhibit their mental illness. It’s pretty ingenious, come to think of it. Trump’s people do not need to find these weirdos; they turn themselves in at the nearest Tesla. Sort of like the amateur Iraqi soldiers surrendering in the desert to American drones some years back! So far, we have college students, college professors, a clown or two – all surrendering to the Tesla they defiled. Each of these misfits has a following; the lesson here is not lost. Just as J6 was a Biden-Pelosi trap that worked well for them, the T3 strategy is beginning to pay big dividends. Indeed, Bondo says that the T3 defendants may do 20-40 years in the slammer, far more than any J6 defendant. And with Vance in the wings, they may not see a pardon for 15 or 20 years, assuming the left ever comes to power again. Did I mention that, ironically, most Tesla owners are kindred spirits with those caught by the T3? Oh, the humanity!
The left is becoming more violent as their political power decreases. Simple cause and effect.
What they don’t seem to understand is that the reason for their political slide is that propaganda cannot make their horrid policies into political gold. Bottom bottom line: they suck and we won’t be convinced otherwise by even the most powerful propaganda machinery(powered byour own tax money).
OldFish,
Gets worse for the Democrat party. Just read the DNC vice chair, David Hogg, is proposing to spend DNC money to oust incument Democrats for “Leaders We Deserve” program to get more unhinged far leftists into Congress. Seems they are not reading their own base and doubling down on the unhinged far leftist stupid and crazy. Recent Gallup poll now has the Democrat party ar a 25% approval rating. A new all time low.
Meanwhile democrats not unlike Osama Bin Laden calling for the destruction of America, democrat need to held accounting for their CALLS for actions against Americans! Democrats are the BIGGEST Danger to the USA in its history!
Their Lawfare against Trump is just like Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, etc fascism….against the people of THEIR counties!
Thank you professor for pointing how the Democrats use inflamatory rhetoric, yet complicent MSM either gives them cover or just pretends it never happened. Calls for violence is never acceptable …. unless Democrats are doing it. Then it is okay. /sarc
“complicent MSM either gives them cover or just pretends it never happened”
It’s far worse than that The MSM in many cases is deliberately inciting these lunatics.
Democrats Party are Terrorists…and just like KKK was punished for burning cross, etc…Democrats need to be scorched earth punished…FOLLOW THE MONEY as well!
What is clear are Democrats have TRAINED their fascists BrownShirts
Time for the Republicans to BREAK IT APART
Democrat’s are fighting their 2nd Civil War against America, which is 2 too many!
The Republicans need to destroy these Fascists! I call for a Nuremburg like trial to root corrupt democrats from Government!
Thank God for Trump, Elon, and the other helping!
BTW every person in the USA owes $133,000 a PERSON of Federal Debt…we are BROKE and it is by Design…not just greed!
Just goes to show the lack of self awareness, critical thinking, independent thinking of unhinged leftists are. That is what happens when they only listen to the cultish mind hive of MSM. We all know and have seen the increase of violence committed by the unhinged left. We have all seen the increase violent rhetoric from the left and even asking the question of when will it be time to kill all Trump supportors. Moderate, traditional Democrats, when are you going to kick the unhinged leftists out of ypur party and bring your party back to some semblance of sanity and normalcy? Keep letting the unhinged far leftists run your party and you will continue to lose elections. Or, the more sensible thing might be to leave the Democrat party and form a new party based on tradition Democrat values. Regardless, you all need to do something. And soon.
The Nazis rationalized their murderous year-long spree of Jews, Romanie, homosexuals, and political opponents. Everyone always finds an excuse for violence. What’s interesting is how they accuse the right of the things they are most guilty of. Anyone remember how the left and MSM (one in the same) crucified Sara Palin for the attack on Gabby Gifford because someone made a poster showing her in crosshairs? Someone eventually will die. And the MSM and leftwing politicos will rationalize it as “they had it coming to them.”
You are correct Mary. Lots of “projection” going on here. Greg
Yup, and guess who were the masters of that kind of deflection. The Nazis and the bolshies.
I wonder if New York will take her license away. One would think vandalism is a disqualification for a therapist.
“One would think vandalism is a disqualification for a therapist.”
Or publicly exhibiting mental illness herself!
The sad truth is that the inmates run the asylum in the psychology professions. Mass-formation psychosis grips most of them in the form of politics. Authorities in such fields have repeatedly made absurd diagnoses about Trump. The vast majority of them lean hard left. That’s been polled and proven. Caveat emptor if you need a psychologist or guidance counselor.
The delusion is being created by the media. But why are the executive producers and owners of these networks encouraging this hate. I believe this is not accidental and there is a method to their madness.
Absolutely great article.
Why are all those deranged leftie gals look repulsive?
I was deplorable for years, until I was upgraded to garbage. That was a small part of why kamala lost. She is an educated idiot, is why she lost. It appears that her voters act like ghestapo goons.
Wait! Word-Salad Kamalala is “educated?”
How do you educate a vegetable?
Word-Salad Kamalala was not “educated”; she/it/her/they was “laid” by the very married-with-children California Assembly Speaker Willy Brown.