Just when we think we are running out of absolutely batpoop insane ideas for the Left in America to fully embrace, along comes an even more lunatic idea.
Not only are they still clinging to the monstrous ideology that men can become women and belong in girls' sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms, but with the DSA monster they have created, they are now going 'all in' on Communism and radical Islam.
They have careened so far beyond parody that if we weren't already seeing the horrific effects of their ideology on America, we'd swear they were pranking us. We hate to label everything Orwellian, but at this point, we would not be surprised if the next DNC included posters and placards declaring that 2+2=5.
As if to prove the point that there is no idea so ludicrous that the left will not endorse it, New York Times columnist (and new 60 Minutes correspondent) Ross Douthat recently debated Yale law professor Samuel Moyn on the idea that elderly Americans are hoarding the future from younger generations.
It's not a new argument, and there is some merit to it. The conversation began by discussing politicians like Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell, as well as late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who refuse to relinquish power and retire into the sunset.
But it wasn't long before the conversation took a turn from the sublime to the ridiculous. Watch:
I try to keep an open mind about new ideas and opinions, but this take on parents and children is the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a long time. Douthat’s response is perfect: pic.twitter.com/tx26XZxpxw
— Caleb Wait (@calebwait) August 4, 2026
Yes, you heard that correctly. Moyn argues that young, childless 24-year-old college graduates know what is better for children than those children's parents.
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And Douthat gave that deranged notion the only response it merited:
'I think that's daft. I think it's absurd to imagine ...'
But that's today's left for you. Daft and absurd.
More absolute bats***ness https://t.co/bjbDuJ5lmx
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) August 4, 2026
Of course, it's not surprising that Moyn feels this way. He is a Marxist. Family is anathema to Marxism.
Where did we find this kook
— Dan Gainor (@dangainor) August 4, 2026
Unfortunately, you can find him in one of America's most prestigious institutions.
Cynical Publius laid out exactly what is going on in the conversation in a lengthy tweet.
I feel like this video should get wide dissemination so regular Americans can understand just how 🦇💩 crazy our law schools (and the legal profession more broadly) actually are.
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) August 5, 2026
The dude on the right is Samuel Moyn, a respected, tenured professor at Yale Law School.
Watch this… https://t.co/vltpcRVOxt
... short video please.
One of the tenets of most forms of totalitarianism, including Marxism and Naziism, is to destroy the family as the basic building block of society and replace it with the State.
Moyn is suggesting that parents should not have the right to speak for their children, and that third parties--presumably those chosen by a government led by evildoing "experts" like Moyn--should speak on behalf of those children instead.
This is not a new idea. Hitler embraced this idea. Stalin embraced this idea. Mao embraced this idea.
Yet this is a respected professor at what is generally considered the premier law school in the USA.
We have a deep and troubling problem in America's legal profession, and we must find ways to reduce the power and influence of lawyers generally.
I say this as a lawyer myself.
This is how Marxism always operates. Capture the institutions of greatest influence and target the kids.
It makes us wonder if Mao's Little Red Book is a required text in Moyn's classroom at Yale.
I don't even understand it. Is the creepy looking guy in the white shirt saying young people should get more votes?
— Eithan Haim MD (@EithanDHaimMD) August 5, 2026
What he is saying is that the votes of young, childless people should be overweighted, perhaps even used as proxies in place of older voters.
No, we are not making that up. You can read it in the transcript.
This is Statism in a nutshell: the belief that you know better for my kids than I do. You don't, and also go to hell. https://t.co/5X6vhzq2Bt
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 5, 2026
If it involves destroying the traditional nuclear family, you can bet that statists like Moyn are going to be all for it.
The Left has always viewed the family as the greatest threat to their lust for power. This is yet another in an endless list of attempts to undermine it.
— Steven P. Smith (@stevenpsmith) August 4, 2026
Academic: I think the gullible young people I can manipulate should have more power and the skeptical parents who can see through my bulls*** should have less power https://t.co/GuSuR1uLwp
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) August 5, 2026
BINGO!
Even former conservative Jonah Goldberg broke out of his TDS stupor to recommend a better response that Douthat should have provided after listening to Moyn:
I have nothing but respect for Ross and his response. But, honestly, the best legal response would have been to grab the nearest fire extinguisher and spray it in the dude’s face. “I’m sorry that hot take was so hot, I was afraid the concentrated stupidity would endanger the… https://t.co/4ys4i8xU37
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) August 5, 2026
... lives of my coworkers.”
Again, I said the best legal response.
Maybe Goldberg is starting to have some buyer's remorse about who he has aligned himself with due to his hatred of the President.
"Grownups think that our policy ideas are absurd and refuse to vote for us, so I say we should get to count the votes of your children. Not our own, of course, because we are in fact childless weirdos and don't have any. But we definitely covet control over yours."
— James Brown (@XiolaBlues) August 4, 2026
As an interpretation of what Moyn was really saying here, that one is better than Google Translate could ever provide.
— 🥥🌴 (@Meritocrating) August 4, 2026
Probably a very good idea for Kash Patel.
Demonic pic.twitter.com/vkNMDkyZOL
— NERKISH (@NerkNews) August 4, 2026
We're not going to ask (yet again), 'Why do they always look like that?', but ... why do they always look like that?
Every time this idiot explains himself, it should go like this:
— SagebrushBirdhunter (@FanaticLurker) August 4, 2026
1. Idiot explains his idiotic theory
2. The person listening says nothing and just punches him in the mouth
3. Keep your hands off my kids.
I disagree here.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 5, 2026
The perfect response would be putting that individual in an Antarctic penal colony and making him do hard labor until he loses all his extremities to frostbite https://t.co/uOnc78EEsZ
Ooh. That response might be even better than the one Goldberg proposed.
The man Ross is talking to should be thrown in prison. https://t.co/fnrwm3BQaW
— Jeremy Christiansen (@TradVat2) August 4, 2026
At the very least, he should not be in a position to poison young minds at Yale.
I was hoping this was building up to something like the exchange former senator Phil Gramm had with a woman who insisted she cared about Gramm's children as much as he did.
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) August 5, 2026
"Oh, yeah? What are their names?" https://t.co/hHI0yHqSQX
HA!
A classic from the former Texas Congressman and Senator (who actually DID retire at a relatively early age).
We should actually award proxy votes for people with vocal fry to those of us without it https://t.co/fAfbx62jFZ
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) August 4, 2026
LOL.
MK Hammer always offers the best, funniest solutions to leftist problems.
We are reaching levels of libtardation once unimaginable https://t.co/iAb4f19xRW
— Hussein Aboubakr Mansour (@HusseinAboubak) August 4, 2026
And it wasn't even that long ago that it was unimaginable.
The descent of Democrats into Marxist madness has gone more quickly than the proverbial handbasket into Hell.
Was no one else available to be interviewed? Did the dancing bear cancel at the last minute? https://t.co/0mYBzpwUdv
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) August 4, 2026
Even the dancing bear understands that parents know best for their kids.
But we're glad Douthat talked to Moyn BECAUSE of how crazy he is.
Instead of preaching his ideology privately at Yale Law School, now everyone can see him for who he is.
They think our children belong to them. This is an insane clip but something that a lot of progressives believe. https://t.co/K3LMzeEhja
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 5, 2026
That's it. That's the point.
But the more American parents understand what leftists think of them and what they want to do with their children, the worse it will work out for the Marxist ideologues.
Just ask Terry McAuliffe in Virginia.
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