Laura Hollis came out ranting in her Jan. 10 WorldNetDaily column:
What a news cycle we’re having. In just the past week, we’ve had exposure of massive fraud in the state of Minnesota, the U.S. military’s removal of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, widespread protests across Iran calling for the end of the Islamic regime, and the swearing in of New York City’s new socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani.
These seemingly unrelated items have one important thing in common, and that is that they reveal even more about the American Left, its disdain for liberty and the rule of law, and its love affair with authoritarian collectivism.
YouTuber Nick Shirley and his research partner David Hoch exposed more than $100 million in fraud being perpetrated by Somalis in Minneapolis charging the state for empty child care centers, fake adult care facilities, and health care transportation services that provide no health care transportation.
Democrats went ballistic. Not, mind you, over the theft of taxpayer dollars, nor the corresponding impact on social services to Minnesota residents with actual needs. No, what really upset the Left – including the reliably worthless legacy media – was the fact that a young man armed with just a mic and a phone camera was able to blow the story wide open.
As we documented, Shirley is a right-winger who got his start making prank videos in high school. His allegations had not been verified at the time the Hollis ran to his defense, and his methods have been questioned, such as visiting daycare centers after hours. Nevertheless, Hollis continued:
Despite their efforts to discredit Shirley, the conflagration has been too large to contain. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been forced to end his reelection campaign. (If the latest buzz is accurate, he’ll be lucky if that’s the worst of the consequences; more information is coming out indicating that Walz’ office had been apprised of the fraud but did nothing.) And citizen journalists in other states are now conducting similar investigations.
Right on cue, here came the protesters, holding signs to allege “racism” and show their support – not for beleaguered Minnesota taxpayers but for the Somalis accused of fraud.
Hollis then moved onto another subject of ire:
Oh, but there’s more.
Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, was sworn in on Jan. 1. An avowed socialist, Mamdani promised New Yorkers in his inaugural address that he would “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” (That warmth would no doubt come as a surprise to the 100 million-plus people who died under collectivist regimes in the 20th century.)
And she wasn’t done:
All of which tells you everything you need to know about the performative fraud of the Left: They purport to care about “the people,” but defend thieves and criminals, and support dictators and authoritarian regimes that deny citizens basic human rights and necessities of life.
Their ideologies and sense of self-importance are much more important to them than the suffering inflicted by the policies they espouse on the “people” they pretend to care about. As Mamdani bragged, they elevate the “collective” over the individual. But they ignore that “people” is simply an aggregation of individuals, because individuals are just a hindrance to collectivism.
Hollis’ column is headlined “The left’s performative outrage,” but it appears the person who’s really engaging in performative outrage is Hollis.