For years, I have told various people in politics, the media and the financial world that the most impressive investment CEO I have ever encountered is fictional.One who came from nothing; identified with the working-class over the elites; established a persona deliberately meant to be underestimated by his snobbish competitors; and truly prized morality over money.That fictional CEO being Lawrence Garfield.
The lead character played to perfection by Danny DeVito in the 1991 film "Other People’s Money." Within the body of the movie, the New York City-based Garfield character shouts out an amazingly prescient warning as if envisioning the coming capitalistic-destroying and liberty-robbing edicts of far-left, socialist- and communist-embracing politicians such as New York City Democrat Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York Democrat Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson.While dressing down a conference room full of lawyers he has on retainer, the fictional billionaire CEO lectures in part: "Congratulations.
You're destroying the capitalist system.While everybody else in the world is embracing it, my boys and girls are f---ing it up! You know what happens when capitalism gets f---ed up? The communists come back.
They come out of the bushes.Don't kid yourself.
They're waiting in there…"Thirty-five years ago, Garfield saw the danger cresting over the horizon.Today, his fictionalized warning in the defense of capitalism, a free-market system, and our very Republic has become a horrifying reality.BISHOP BARRON SLAMS 'BORDERLINE COMMUNISTS' SANDERS, MAMDANI AHEAD OF TRUMP PRAYER EVENT: 'ECONOMY THAT KILLS'Danny DeVito defends capitalism in the film 'Other People's Money,' 1991.
(Photo by Warner Brothers/Getty Images)The "communists" are no longer waiting in the bushes.They are back.
They are among us.We deny this treacherous blossoming reality at our own peril. Fortunately – and to the outright despair of the Democratic Leade...