Theater Kids Vs. Saladin

 Here's one of the theater kids now:

Here's Tim Walz changing the topic to white men when the Somali fraud first got exposed.

He knows it works with his base. It's become one of their default modes.pic.twitter.com/jmZGsMtf2x

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) March 10, 2026

Confronted by questions about the Somalis looting Minnesota, he quickly twists it around to talk about how bad white men are.

Meanwhile, the descendants of Saladin aren't exactly hiding the ball.

Mahmoud Khalil last year: “We are fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”

Tonight, is invited to the NYC Mayor’s mansion to eat with Zohran Mamdani.

Wake up—do you not see what’s happening? pic.twitter.com/kqqwZ1wNrm

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 10, 2026

So what's going on here? The Somalis are doing what is good and moral for Somalis. The progs who run Minnesota left easy avenues for looting the public treasury, so the Somalis did it to enrich their clans. In their eyes, to miss that opportunity would be a sin.

Meanwhile, the progs know this is happening, but it means way less than signaling their allegiance to the Omnicause to their fellow progs.

Recently, Winston Marshall had the author Lionel Shriver on his show. I'd never heard of Lionel before, but I thought she was brilliant.

I captured the audio, made a transcript and here's one of the sections that caught me for its clear summary of what we see above, edited for clarity. Lionel has a bit of a stutter.

(Open borders) certainly becomes culturally meaningless because, (your nation is) just a way station. You're just a place. It reduces country to geography. And conventionally, we think countries are more than geography. So. I think that that this is definitely connected to pro-immigration is also connected to professed self-hatred in the West. Although I question that. I think that maybe the self-hatred they're promoting, they exempt themselves from.

What does that mean? In other words, if you hate yourself, you hate yourself, but these people hate other people in the name of hating themselves in their hair-shirtery. You know, we have this terrible history. We had slavery. We murdered the Indians in the U.S.

So, you know, we have no moral claim to this land. But, apropos of the Billie Eilish quote, they're not, giving their houses away. And so it doesn't really apply to them. I don't think that their emotional experience of promoting hatred of their own people in their own country is one of genuine self-hatred.

They love themselves. They're very proud of themselves. And it's a kind of vanity. So to call that self-hatred is wrong, it is actually a loathing for your fellow countrymen who don't agree with you. Yeah, it's false humility. Yes, it it's a complete performance, it is acting out. It is acting out guilt rather than feeling it.

So why would they loathe their fellow countrymen? Because they don't have these pure moral values. And they don't go through the theatrics of caring more about people who are disadvantaged than they do about themselves and their own group. I think the whole thing is emotionally very convoluted because all this talk of shame, these people don't act as if they're experiencing shame, the, the emotions they exude.

What we're seeing on the left is a conflict between the theater kids and the heirs of Saladin. It's not really a conflict, is it? It's more that the theater kids are the hosts and the Saladinistas are the parasites riding them. On the right, we can see what's happening, but on the left they either can't see it or deny its importance.

My conclusion is that the left doesn't understand the threat posed by the Saladinistas and just goes on its merry way signaling to each other about how full of love they are for the migrants and the marginalized. The real threat to the progs is that they might somehow be tagged as full of hate because they showed the tiniest deviation from the attitudes of the group.

I see that all the time from my Catholic leadership. In a future post, we'll wrestle with the question: Why not convert to Islam? As far as I can tell, according to my bishops, cardinals and pope, it's all upside.