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Liberal: Canadian Lessons for Democrats
Mark Carney led Canada’s Liberal Party to a outstanding comeback victory by “shaking up voters’ expectations of their party, standing for patriotism and national values, and promoting sensible pro-growth economics,” studies the Liberal Patriot’s John Halpin. Liberals’ “Canada Strong” adverts targeted on “Trump’s tariff attacks on Canada and his condescending threats to make the country America’s 51st state.” Crucially, “Carney explicitly rejected one of his party’s least popular policies on climate and energy,” the carbon tax, and “leaned heavily on notions of nation building and pro-growth economic models.” Democrats ought to examine why the Liberals received, not absolve themselves “of their own economic and cultural failures in defeating Trump last year.”
Ukraine warfare: It’s Nuts for US To ‘Walk Away’
Russia goals to “drag out” Ukraine peace talks, “wait for the other side” to “walk away” after which “ramp up the war,” warns Seth G. Jones at The Wall Street Journal. Yet it doesn’t maintain all of the playing cards: “Increased sanctions against Russia’s energy sector would likely cause significant pain.” Plus, Moscow’s troops “have died in extraordinary numbers,” and a US resolution “to provide more weapons, intelligence and training to Ukraine would escalate Russia’s battlefield costs” more. But “the U.S. has failed to wield either the economic or military cudgel,” at the same time as Russia aids the Houthis, who’ve attacked the US Navy. Asian officers say a Russian win would embolden China and North Korea and signal US weak point. There’s “too much at stake” for Washington “to walk away.”
From the best: Working-Class Family Comeback
Four a long time after Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” bemoaned “the fate of small-town America and the working class in the face of deindustrialization,” observe Brad Wilcox, Grant Martsoff & Chris Bullivant at The Washington Examiner, the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs “has hit men especially hard.” “Men retreated from work then retreated from relationships.” To return to working-class glory days, we should “reverse this trend of income and relational collapse.” The high jobs for household formation are “armed services and first responders” within the public sector and “trucking and construction” within the non-public sector; all offer “a good wage, job stability, and job benefits.” The Trump administration should guarantee “that being ‘Born in the USA’ is a win for those in working-class jobs.”
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Ed desk: Ugly View from Princeton
“I want this university severely punished for its unlawful behavior,” an nameless Princeton prof thunders to City Journal’s Christopher Rufo. “I want all the emails to come out that will make it very evident that this university was engaged in illegal discrimination” — as when “we were told that 70 percent of the faculty are white, and that the faculty composition has to change” or “ ‘You can’t shortlist this person. We can’t hire a white guy.’ ” “Academics are cowards. They see the way the wind is blowing and either go quiet or jump on the bandwagon.” Princeton prez Christopher Eisgruber have to be “subpoenaed before Congress to have to account for not only anti-Semitism, but for DEI and for the ‘systemic racism’ arguments that he’s made.”
Health beat: Pay Organ Donors To Save Lives
“If people were able to pay donors for a lifesaving transplant, we might instantly eradicate kidney disease deaths,” argues Sally Satel at The Free Press, a two-time kidney recipient. The 1984 National Organ Transplant Act “made it illegal to give or receive anything of material value for an organ” to make sure the rich couldn’t buy kidneys from “financially desperate and uninformed donors.” Since then, “more than 100,000 Americans” have needlessly died whereas awaiting a transplant. Now the new End Kidney Deaths Act “would dramatically increase kidney transplants” however guard in opposition to exploitation “by providing a $50,000 refundable tax credit, payable over five years, to any living donor who gives a kidney to the next person on the waiting list.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
