Liberal: Why Dems Alienate Working Class
“The key schism” at the “heart of dysfunction within the Democratic Party and the U.S. political system more broadly is between professionals associated with ‘knowledge economy’ industries and those who feel themselves to be the ‘losers’ ” in that economy, including “growing numbers of working-class and non-white voters,” argues Musa al-Gharbi at The Liberal Patriot. “As professionals have increasingly clustered in the Democratic Party,” they’ve grown “increasingly progressive,” especially “when compared with blue-collar workers.” The shift has “contributed to a growing disconnect” between Dems’ economic priorities “relative to most others in the U.S., especially working-class Americans.” And: “Non-white and less affluent or educated voters are not just willing to cross party lines”; they’ve “been doing it” — and in “ever-growing numbers.”
From the right: Times Hawks Hamas Death Stats
In reporting “that more civilians have died in Palestine since Oct. 7 than have died in Ukraine after two years of brutal war against Russia,” The New York Times “relied entirely on the word of ‘Gazan officials’ — in other words, Hamas,” fumes Becket Adams at The Hill. “This is an astonishing claim that requires hard evidence and corroboration. Yet the Times provides neither” and “actually attempted to trick readers into believing the civilian death toll has been independently verified” — “but the problem with the Times’s sourcing of ‘UN estimates’ is that all the numbers come from Hamas.” “We are owed something more substantial than the say-so of a terrorist group known for releasing wild propaganda, but that ‘something’ never comes.”
Conservative: Of Course They Want Violence
“Do not let anyone tell you that” the “angry mob gathering around a Jewish-owned restaurant in downtown Philadelphia” was “chanting for peace,” thunders National Review’s Jim Geraghty. It came in response to a statement that denounced “Hamas, not the Palestinians” and the fact that “the guys running the restaurant are paying for emergency medical services” from a Jewish charity. “Those protesters are objectively pro-Hamas.” So “we’re now at the stage where ‘supporting Palestine’ and yet another BS ‘cease-fire’ where only one side ceases fire includes marching in a mob in the night and targeting Jewish-owned businesses.” (And just imagine the media response if the restaurant “had been targeted by those polo-shirt-wearing, tiki-torch-carrying, evolutionary missing links from Charlottesville.”)
From the right: Sandra Day O’Connor, RIP
“Sandra Day O’Connor, who died Friday at age 93, is being remembered as the first woman to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court,” note the Wall Street Journal’s editors. “But her far more consequential legacy was as a champion of the role of the states in the Constitution.” “Along with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, her classmate at Stanford Law School, she sought to put limits on federal intrusions on state power” and brought “a respect for the prerogatives of the states that had fallen into disfavor.” Yes, she “could be frustrating in that she often sought a middle ground on the Court that didn’t resolve festering legal sores.” But her decisions “restored some balance to constitutional federalism that was much needed, and still is.”
Education beat: Teachers Union’s Hamas Bent
Teachers unions are siding with Hamas in “calling for a ‘ceasefire’ and accusing Israel of being an ‘occupier,’ ” grumbles Ellie Krasne-Cohen at the Washington Examiner, flagging resolutions passed by unions in Chicago, San Francisco and San Antonio. And NYC’s “United Federation of Teachers seems more concerned with pandering to the Hamas caucus than standing on the side of freedom.” Count this as another reason “all states should pass school choice proposals.” Let families “choose a school where students of all faiths and ethnic groups feel welcome and can get a quality education.” Former Education Secretary Rod Paige once “described the National Education Association as a ‘terrorist organization’ ” because of its opposition to education reforms. After the horrific Oct. 7 massacre, the “teachers unions’ support for Hamas suggests that he was right.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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