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Liberal: Democrats Still Clueless
In the “half a year since their catastrophic loss to their arch-nemesis Trump,” frets the Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira, Democrats’ “favorability rating is still dreadful, they have only a modest lead in the generic congressional vote for 2026” and their possibilities of “taking back the Senate are slim.”
The “drive to reinvent the party seems to have stalled out” as leaders stay “in denial about how serious their wounds are.”
They haven’t “staked out a middle ground” that adopts common Trump actions, however as an alternative stay “deeply convinced that Trump is perhaps the worst person to ever walk the earth and find it difficult to relate to voters whose views are more mixed” — “that a breaking point from Trump’s actions will inevitably be reached where voters will wake up and realize Democrats were right all along.”
Libertarian: Zo’s Insulting Child Care ‘Fix’
Socialists like Zohran Mamdani “pretend they want to support mothers and motherhood. But they don’t understand what type of help mothers need at all,” fumes Reason’s Liz Wolfe.
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Mamdani “promises to implement free child care.” But then “if you’re a mother who wants to take care of your own kids, your household — through your tax dollars — will be forced to subsidize those who use the state-run day care system.”
Will mothers who keep home or “rely on grandparents, a nanny, or any sort of local child care collective” get “any tax credit or subsidy”?
Families fluctuate, however “Mamdani and other socialists like him are saying that one form of child care is above all others and that New Yorkers should be forced to pay for it.”
Democrat: Return to Basics
Zohran Mamdani is “a charismatic, smart and effective campaigner” who has “tapped into” widespread anxiousness about “bills, rent and job security,” admits Tom Suozzi in The Wall Street Journal — however his “lofty promises” of free housing and transit lie “far beyond his authority” and must be “paid for by huge tax increases.”
Better “another way” primarily based on “stronger unions, revitalized manufacturing, and a labor market that rewards hard work over wealth accumulation.”
Mamdani didn’t win as a result of New Yorkers love socialism, however “because too many voters think the rest of the Democratic Party no longer stands for them.”
And that may keep haunting the national social gathering.
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Culture critic: Rowling Right on Pronouns
The pronoun trend is “a fast track to declaring your side in a culture war,” fires Stella O’Malley at Spiked.
“Harry Potter author JK Rowling” is “certainly no hostage to this trend,” as she flames: “When you tell a woman she must pretend a man is a woman, you’re asserting the right to control her speech and perception of reality.”
Says O’Malley: “What Rowling understands is that pronouns carry an entire worldview,” so “using ‘he’ instead of ‘she’ can feel like firing the first shot in a culture war.”
“For the linguistically sensitive, a misused pronoun registers as a breach of reality.”
“Rowling is right — pronouns are not just a matter of politeness. Grammar is being used to smuggle in an ideology.”
Campus watch: Columbia Prez’s Telling Texts
Leaked textual content messages show interim Columbia President Claire Shipman has “all the instincts of a dodo bird,” snark The Washington Free Beacon’s editors.
The texts show her ideas on “anti-Israel and antisemitic protests that have roiled the Ivy League school for the past two years.”
After college students violated University coverage (which might finally “lead the student encampment and occupation of a university building”), she referred to as to “unsuspend the groups before the semester starts” and for the varsity to “do some things with Rashid” — that’s, occasions selling virulently anti-Israel “Rashid Khalidi, the former Palestine Liberation Organization flack” and longtime Columbia prof.
Her “first response to Oct. 7 and the campus crisis it spawned was to push an outspoken Jew off the Columbia board and fill the spot with an Arab.”
So “Columbia trustees might wonder” if the varsity wants “new leadership.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
