New York is now the most idiotic city in the world

New York never sleeps because people are having nightmares about communism's failures.

New York’s newly elected mayor might wax poetic about collective warmth, but history shows it’s more like a fever dream that burns everything in its path.

If Frank Sinatra were to wake up in the city that never sleeps today, it wouldn’t be because of all the partying and vibrant nightlife he crooned about. It would be because everyone is having nightmares about skyrocketing taxes, crumbling infrastructure, and a bureaucracy that stifles the very spirit that made New York iconic.

The Big Apple, once a symbol of ambition and opportunity, is rotting from the core with this idiotic pivot to collectivism.

My laest in The Spectator Australia, New York is now the most idiotic city in the world.

#NewYorkCity embraces 'the warmth' 🔥 of socialism (?)

New York, the beating heart of American capitalism, is now poised to embrace the very ideologies that the United States spent decades and trillions of dollars fighting to contain. In the proxy battles of the Cold War,… pic.twitter.com/jFyWBDCl7n

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) January 3, 2026