Conservative: Dems’ New Strategy? Hate Jews
“Asked if burning a Jewish woman to death for her Jewish activism was anti-Semitic,” Melat Kiros “was unconvinced,” recalls Commentary’s Seth Mandel.
Yet Kiros’ polling kept rising after that, and last week she “ousted veteran Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette” in a primary.
Her “victory followed that of Darializa Avila Chevalier, who attended a rally on October 8, 2023, that celebrated the Hamas rape and murder spree the previous day” — behavior that’s “unambiguously antisemitic.”
Like Kiros, Chevalier “won because of antisemitism. Without it, the political world would never know she existed.”
It’s helped other progressives, too. Surely Dems “are uncomfortable with the fact that antisemitism has become a powerful currency” among their ranks, right? Yet Jew-hate seems to have become their go-to “electoral strategy.”
Fraud watch: Trump Police Are on the Case
Health bosses Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz just revealed that “more than 1 million people enrolled in Obamacare plans lack Social Security numbers” — “a glaring warning sign for fraud,” fumes the Boston Herald Editorial Board.
The Justice Department also announced “charges against 455 defendants, including 90 doctors” tied to $6.5 billion worth of health-care schemes.
“Taxpayers assume the money they send to Washington each year goes to programs and people who legitimately need it.” But apparently no one “was watching the till.”
“How many have gotten away” with fraud? Fortunately, the Trump folks aim to stop it: “If you’re a fraudster,” warns Oz, “here’s our advice”: “Run, because we are going to find you.”
DC beat: A Rules-Free ‘Authoritarian’
A new report just found the Trump administration continuing “to exercise a welcome and historic regulatory restraint,” cheers The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman.
The report, by Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews, notes that the Federal Register is “on track to land at fewer than 3,000 rules at year-end” — “which has happened only twice before in history, both times under Trump.”
And some of Trump’s rules, Freeman points out, spend “more time undoing than doing.”
True, there are exceptions: Trump says he loves to cut “red tape,” but “interventions outside conventional rulemaking,” like tariffs and antitrust actions, have deviated from that “wise statement.”
Still, despite “habitually” being called an “authoritarian,” it seems like Trump “avoids telling Americans what to do more than any other recent president.”
Liberal: Don’t Count Kamala Out
Most observers doubt Democrats would “do something so, well, stupid” as to make Kamala Harris their presidential nominee again in 2028, quips Ruy Teixeira at The Free Press.
Yet “she continues to have a solid lead among likely Democratic primary voters.”
She’d also have “built-in support” among blacks, especially black women. And she’s “quite comfortable pandering to anti-Trump ‘#Resistance’ sentiment,” which will play well and help her avoid policy questions, where she’s “shaky” or saddled with hard-to-defend past positions.
Yet, though she’d be a formidable candidate in the primaries, she’d be “terrible” in the general and “would minimize, not maximize, the Democrats’ chances.”
Then again, Democratic voters will be the ones to decide, and they reflect a “party that has changed very little since the disastrous 2024 election.”
From the right: Canada’s Nutty ‘Brain Drain’ Cure
Canada, land of “high taxes, regulations that stymie entrepreneurs” and poor “wage growth, is grappling with a ‘brain drain’” as a “disproportionate” number of “high-earning, highly educated Canadians” look for greener pastures abroad, observes City Journal’s Steven Malanga.
To staunch the bleeding, some Canadians proposed a “whopping half-million-dollar ‘exit penalty’ to leave for the US” for would-be emigrants who took advantage of Canada’s highly subsidized education system.
Yet economists believe Canada’s “heavy tax and regulatory regimes . . . ‘stifle innovation and economic growth,’ ” and “wages have stagnated,” even for “talented” tech workers, who earn half as much as their American counterparts.
Canada already has a “levy on the capital gains,” even on unrealized gains, and its answer to unwanted emigration “is to tax them even more.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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