The democracy is CAN/US has devolved into an almost like 'us-vs-them' paradigm. While its not everyone, but a lot of people think that its okay since we're the good guys.
We're in an election cycle in Canada (I am citizen of both countries) and the amount of signs being destroyed is much higher then I've ever seen.
What Trump does is to grant exemptions (e.g. from secrecy rules at the Pentagon), invent special rules (e.g. no security clearance for lawyers who've served the clients Trump doesn't like), take bribes (e.g. security clearance from the goverment but only once you've agreed to work for Trump's political friends for free) and so on.
What's being proposed here is to revoke an exemption, so Tesla has to follow the same rules as other car manufacturers. That's not in the same class. An exception from the law requires continuing justification IMO. The state can IMO say "okay, our reasons were A, B and C, that doesn't apply any more" and if Tesla wants to continue to be treated specially, it has to argue for that.
(But IMO the state has a moral duty to make the transition palatable. Reasonable warning time etc.)
No they're not revoking an exception, they're making exceptions for non-Tesla.
"Under her plan, the licenses could be redistributed to rival electric-vehicle manufacturers like Rivian, Lucid and the Volkswagen affiliate Scout Motors, which also employ a direct-to-consumer sales approach." This is exactly what Trump is doing.
Basically no special license for Tesla, but special license for others. I'm either special license for all or special license for none.
Democrats should be above this in my opinion.
US Government targeting businesses due to party affiliation is crazy.