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Listening to a modern leftist is truly a fascinating exercise. Mostly in their utterly uninformed credulity and endless willingness to frighten themselves with imaginary bogeymen, with the biggest bogeyman of all being the Bad Orange Man who apparently lurks in every leftist closet and under every leftist bed.
And, like every hobgoblin, he’s going to get them if they don’t watch out.
They’re so terrified of the Bad Orange Man that they’re actually living up to their own standards for once. In a classic case of scary stories making children behave, leftists are giving up the regular overseas holidays they swear are killing the planet, but which they can’t give up – unless it means trip-trapping over the Bad Orange Man’s bridge.
“This morning I cancelled our family holiday to America,” British TV personality Giles Coren announced last week.
“I cannot in good conscience take my wife and children there and tell them they will be safe. The US is no longer a place for decent people.”
So, what’s stopping you?
“If you were thinking about a holiday in the US, you need to rethink. Urgently,” Canberra academic Jenna Price commanded last year.
“The US is not a safe place to visit.”
In another anti-US travel piece, which ran under the headline “I lived in America for 10 years. Now I don’t even want to visit,” Sydney novelist Lee Tulloch warned of “becoming collateral damage in a mall shooting”.
As opposed to having various limbs lopped off by rampaging African gangs in Australian shopping malls.
Coren’s trip-cancelling terror was provoked by the recent shooting of two cranky activists in Minneapolis who somehow thought it wise to physically confront armed authorities.
(Just a quick note on that: the international leftist movement is outraged about the deaths of two white activists in a 77 per cent white state but never says a word about the 400 or so black people murdered every year by other black people in Chicago. Leftists are racists.)
In any case, as is usual with the left, they’re sitting around in their little echo chamber, metaphorically shining a torch under their faces and terrifying each other with complete figments of their deranged imagination. Not safe? America is the safest it’s been in years – and all because of the Bad Orange Man.
The New York Times reported last week that 2025 “is likely to register the lowest national homicide rate in 125 years and the largest single-year drop on record, according to a new analysis of 2025 crime data”.
Being the NYT, of course it couldn’t bring itself to admit that it’s because of Trump’s ending of Democrat soft-on-crime, ‘defund the police’, policies. It’s all a mystery, whines the Times. Others are less befuddled.
As Minnesota-based pundit David Strom notes, this calculation isn’t exactly difficult: “During the surge in immigration and the corresponding increase in the ‘criminal justice reform’ and ‘defund the police’ movement, the murder rate (and other crimes) soared dramatically, but under Trump, even with those liberals running major cities, the murder rate dropped like a rock.
“To the lowest level in over a hundred years.”
Not that leftists are about to listen, of course. Instead, they’ll rely on their famously faulty memories (when you can’t remember every single time that socialism has failed, you’re prone to forget a lot that you want to).
Among our batch of Trump foes, Lee Tulloch certainly loved the joint under previous American presidents.
“When I moved to New York in 1985,” Tulloch wrote last year, “the city and America itself seemed an amazingly seductive country.”
New York was so seductive in 1985 that 1392 people were murdered there. The city’s homicide total last year fell to 305. Safer is scarier, if you’re a literary type.
And Coren was planning on taking his family to Miami, where police statistics from mid-2025 showed the following happy figures relative to mid-2024: a 20 per cent decrease in homicides, a 17 per cent decrease in robberies, a 19 per cent decrease in aggravated assaults and a 37 per cent decrease in vehicle theft.
Not only will your family survive, but your rental Camry won’t be snatched from the hotel carpark.
Ordinary Australians aren’t paying the least attention to the inane chittering of the scaredy-cat left.
“Australians are defying a global downturn in travel to the US,” the ABC reported in July. “New figures showing a rise in visitor numbers, despite Donald Trump’s tough new border controls and concerns about detentions and deportations.”
That should be “because of” rather than “despite”.
“Nearly 70,000 Australians travelled to the US in May – up almost eight per cent on the same time last year,” the ABC went on.
“Year-on-year, travel from Australia to the US rose 4.8 per cent.”
Once again proving the chattering left’s utter detachment from the real world.
