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Liberal: Beware Beijing’s Belligerence
Amid renewed consideration on Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere, Washington should not “take its eye off a far more powerful adversary: China,” warns Michael D. Purzycki at The Liberal Patriot. National-security specialists predict it’ll “likely be ready to invade and conquer Taiwan by 2027.” Preparing Americans inside and “outside the military for the effects of war” is important. “The sooner American officials begin preparing the domestic economy for the shock of a war over Taiwan, the better.” The nation have to be prepared to interchange “vital manufactured goods,” guarantee “the military has enough oil to fight China” and repel “Chinese cyberattacks.” Xi Jinping could also be relying on “Americans’ unwillingness to fight for long as a factor that will give China the ultimate edge in an all-out conflict.”
Education beat: Lefty Teachers’ Violent Turn
The two Pittsburgh charter-school academics fired after posting a video exhibiting them cheering Iran’s “promise to kill President Trump” are half of a bigger trend, experiences the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito. “Education Week reported that teachers” in a dozen states “were either fired or placed on leave” forward of probes into social media posts “celebrating or slyly implying their approval of Charlie Kirk’s death.” These incidents have left dad and mom questioning what variety of “influence” or “rhetoric” such academics — public, personal or constitution — are “bringing into the classroom.” “When people ask why more parents are turning to homeschooling, the answer is obvious”: Beyond “poor academic proficiency,” it’s “the culture among teachers” and what they “have posted makes that clear.”
ICE conflict one: Storming Churches ‘Goes Too Far’
“Again, leftists are on the wrong side of a vital issue,” roars USA Today’s Nicole Russell. They “seem to hate law, order and President Donald Trump so much” they’ll “interrupt a church service,” as they did at Cities Churches in Minnesota, to “make a point.” That “goes too far,” disrespecting a “core tenet of American belief: religious freedom” and exposing progressivism as now “anti-Christian and anti-American.” And “where is the liberal outraged for the victims of illegal immigration?” “Laken Riley might be alive today if her murderer hadn’t been free.” Minnesota’s leaders deserve “scorn for both pushing sanctuary policies and then espousing inflammatory rhetoric against ICE.” Why would “an elected official encourage a citizen to peacefully protest a federal agent enforcing federal immigration law?”
ICE conflict two: Minneapolis Mayor’s Obscenity.
Despite the “tragic shooting of Renee Good” whereas “using her SUV to thwart” ICE officers, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey isn’t urging residents to let brokers “do their job” however as a substitute asking police to battle them, marvels The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn. True, Good was no “career criminal,” however she did appear to assume “her political positions rendered her immune from the consequences” of defying a “duly authorized” law-enforcement agent’s order. If she’d merely obeyed the command to get out of her car, she’d “be alive today.” On Sunday, Frey insisted the battle towards ICE is “not just about resistance” but in addition “love” — however his “love” is an “obscenity” echoing Seattle’s mayor in 2020 calling protesters’ occupation of an whole police precinct a “summer of love.”
Conservative: Trump-Centered Urban Disorder
Not till Trump “has a president commented with such urgency” to handle crimes that lack “political significance,” argues City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald. His “words break through the complacency that now treats violence as an inevitable fact of urban life.” Personally affronted by grotesque acts of “street crime,” Trump disregards “presidential norms of rhetorical restraint” in favor of an “unmediated relationship to events.” His “attempts to sic the National Guard” on crime-ridden cities “have deterred crime through their physical presence,” although solely as a “short-term fix.” But Trump’s “lack of proposed” national laws is much less important than his “inclination to lay down a philosophical marker: violence is not normal and should not be tolerated.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
