Democrats embrace extremism, Iran will be Trump’s – Latest News
Conservative: Democrats Embrace Extremism
It appear average Democrats no longer exist: “Famed political strategist James Carville recently advised his party “they should try to abolish American politics” in the event that they win the presidency and Congress in 2028, marvels National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke. Carville stated: “On day one, they should make Puerto Rico and D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13,” remaking all three branches of authorities to ram by means of Dems’ coverage agenda. Damningly, notes Cooke, “Carville followed up his proposition with the counsel ‘don’t run on it, don’t talk about it, just do it.’ ” Beware: “That Carville has gone down this road” means that “if the Democrats give in to their worst instincts the next time they enjoy uniform power, all manner of supposedly respectable figures are likely to go along.”
From the appropriate: Iran Will Be Trump’s Legacy
“All that now matters” for President Trump “is that the U.S. prevails” in its conflict with Iran and that “the Islamic Republic ceases to be a menace to America and its interests,” argues The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn. With the “mullahs on their heels,” Washington mustn’t “squander these gains” and permit them to retrench. The prospect of defeating Iran “rankles American establishments,” which all agree “they can’t stand” Trump and “want him to fail more than they want America to succeed.” In the “twisted logic of the Hate Trump chorus,” the “liberation of millions of people” wouldn’t be value it if it means “Trump getting credit for bringing down a murderous regime.”
Eye on NYC: A Bad Bet for Pension Funds
City Comptroller Mark Levine plans “to direct $4 billion of the city’s roughly $320 billion in pension assets to affordable housing development,” scowls City Journal’s Allison Schrager, however this “initiative constitutes poor risk management” and a lack of focus, as Levine “is tasked with investing pension funds prudently to ensure that benefits are paid,” not with “subsidizing housing for New Yorkers at below-market returns.” A 2019 state law has already “devastated the value of affordable housing,” and “market-rate investors shy away from affordable housing because the returns are so low.” With new pension perks poised to blow a “bigger hole in pension funds,” that are already “underfunded,” New York’s retirement systems “don’t have a dime to spare.”
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Washington watch: Why Wealth Tax Won’t Work
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax guarantees that in the event you “tax the rich just a little bit more,” the nation “can afford everything” — common baby care, free neighborhood school, paid household depart, and so on., however “the math alone raises serious doubts,” scoffs Jeff Evans at The Hill. For starters, it’d be “an unrepeatable one-time liquidation,” not a regular long-term income source. Worse, it might “redirect resources away from productive investment into political allocation,” weakening the “engine that creates prosperity.” Redistribution simply can’t “substitute for growth.” Besides, “the American dream has never been about government delivering prosperity” however permitting “individuals to create it. That system depends on incentives that reward work, risk-taking, and investment — forces that expand the economic pie rather than divide it.”
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Science desk: Al Gore’s Inconvenient ‘Sermon’
In “An Inconvenient Truth,” which turns 20 subsequent month, Al Gore “argued that human-driven climate change was an urgent, civilization-threatening crisis,” recollects Roger Pielke, Jr. at The Honest Broker. But the movie wasn’t really about science; it was a “call to arms,” a “sermon — complete with a moral arc.” And “the climate science community” embraced it, adopting a model of Michael Barkun’s “New Apocalypticism” — “a secular variant of religious millenarianism” full with “believers and deniers,” i.e., “those with faith and those yet to be converted.” In actuality, we’re “not on the brink of an apocalypse.” Yet the movie “provided a lesson”: “When science is leveraged to motivate political transformation,” politics aren’t “transformed”; as a substitute, “scientific institutions” get “compromised.” And “when that happens, we all suffer.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
