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From the left: Now Violence-Wishing Pols Win
“There was a time when suggesting that your opponents should watch their children die would have automatically cost you an election,” recollects Slate’s Molly Olmstead. “That era appears to be over, after Democrat Jay Jones was elected to be Virginia’s next attorney general.” Text messages Jones despatched a colleague three years earlier referred to as for Republican Todd Gilbert to get “two bullets to the head”; he additionally wished Gilbert’s spouse might watch her own baby die in her arms so he would possibly rethink his gun-control views. His phrases “showed distasteful sides of Jones’ private personality,” however his victory “is a snapshot of a hyperpolarized nation, where voters are willing to look past their own candidates’ failures because they see the alternative as an existential threat.”
Iconoclast: It’s Still ‘the Economy, Stupid’
Voters on Tuesday “spoke with one voice: they don’t feel like they can afford the good life,” observes The American Saga’s Zaid Jilani. “Democrats were able to capitalize on that message because they ran campaigns about it” whereas Republicans “were stuck with the unenviable task of defending the Trump administration” amid a “mediocre economy.” Virginia Republican Winsome Earle-Sears “blanketed the airwaves with ads about transgender sports issues” and suffered a “double digits” defeat. So a lot for claims that we’d entered “an era of post-economic voting” the place “the culture war is all that mattered.” That could also be a issue, however people still “care about whether they can put food on the table or afford a roof over their head.” Republicans discovered “it’s still the economy, stupid.”
From the proper: GOP Rebuffs Its Jew-Haters
Some “right-leaning pundits” grumble that “internecine fighting over Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes” impedes the GOP, notes Commentary’s Seth Mandel, but: “Any political movement worth its salt can multitask.” Indeed, “conservatives who oppose white nationalists’ inclusion in politics” ought to “keep up the fight” — “and they are”: Ben Shapiro “dedicated his latest show” to it; Sen. Ted Cruz and President Trump stood up. Commentary’s Abe Greenwald calls it “the right’s immune system” kicking in. Compare that, notes Mandel, to Barack Obama’s reward for the antisemitic Zohran Mamdani. Democrats have taken “Jewish support for granted” for thus long that their “partisan Jewish infrastructure atrophied.”
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Eye on DC: Arctic Frost = Partisan Witch Hunt
“It looks like Arctic Frost was a fishing expedition that targeted not just those involved in” the 2020 Donald Trump marketing campaign’s “fake electors scheme,” however “the Democratic Party’s opponents more generally,” laments The Free Press’ Eli Lake. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley simply “released hundreds of pages” of paperwork displaying “the FBI wanted bank records, communications, and fundraising data on more than 400 Republican and conservative individuals and entities” within the course of the probe. The Arctic Frost workforce additionally bought “ access to the telephone metadata of Republican lawmakers,” although “as a general rule, the feds are never supposed to surveil members of Congress.” Arctic Frost was a huge step downward within the “vicious cycle” of eroding “the norms that protected our justice system from the vicissitudes of executive power.”
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Conservative: Affordable Health Care, GOP-style
The shutdown standoff over Obamacare subsidies factors to a selection, argues Merrill Matthews at The Hill: “Keep pouring taxpayer dollars into a failing, unaffordable health care system, or take this opportunity to fix the structural flaws driving costs ever higher.” Obamacare prices will keep rising as its enhanced subsidies quickly “require enhanced subsidies to the enhanced subsidies.” Organized fraud rings see Medicare and Medicaid “as a cash cow.” And stop paying further for a similar care when it’s in a hospital to help close the “legal loopholes fueling” some Medicaid ripoffs. “Create economic incentives that encourage individuals to be value-conscious consumers in the health care marketplace.” To scale back health-care spending, Republicans need solely “allow the insurance and drug markets to work again.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
