Rachel Maddow is probably the foremost conspiracy theorist on cable news, and here she is with a cockamamie theory about Elon Musk as a national-security threat whose companies need to be dumped by the U.S. government.

It’s worth noting, yet again, that the people who pronounce themselves most alarmed by Trump’s alleged authoritarianism and who are at the heart of the left-wing opinion elite rarely hesitate to display their rank illiberalism.