A Left­ist Bil­lion­aire Vowed To ‘Reimag­ine Cap­i­tal­ism.’ Then He Col­o­nized A Fed­er­al Agency.

A Leftist Billionaire Vowed To ‘Reimagine Capitalism.’ Then He Colonized A Federal Agency.

In Sep­tem­ber 2020, the Omid­yar Net­work, the activism vehi­cle of for­mer eBay chief Pierre Omid­yar, issued a “Call to Reimag­ine Cap­i­tal­ism in Amer­i­ca,” bemoan­ing “struc­tur­al racism, colo­nial­ism, pater­nal­ism,” and propos­ing to build “an explic­it­ly anti-racist and inclu­sive econ­o­my.”
Omid­yar was spend­ing mil­lions of dol­lars, large­ly fun­neled through dark mon­ey groups, to put Joe Biden in the White House. After his elec­tion vic­to­ry, one of Omidyar’s groups, called Reset, explained how it would use the Biden pres­i­den­cy to implant its peo­ple to pur­sue its goals, specif­i­cal­ly tar­get­ing agen­cies it believed had sway.
“Most promis­ing­ly, the Biden admin­is­tra­tion may open the door for spe­cif­ic actions on antitrust and c …