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Liberal: Democrats Gave Up on Growth
“Democrats once understood the importance of economic growth,” laments the Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira. But Twenty first-century Dems overlook “the benefits of growth for the working class”; they as a substitute “prize goals like fighting climate change, reducing inequality” and “advocating for immigrants and identity groups.” Sorry: You can’t “build support” amongst working-class voters “without centering the goal of economic growth.” Now Democrats have turned “downright negative” on AI — common function tech whose “effects on productivity growth could be game-changing and era-defining.” They need new AI information facilities to “provide and pay for their own power” — or to ban them utterly. Fearmongering might win short-term, nevertheless it’s “woefully inadequate as an approach” to tech that may “make the country and its workers richer.”
Europe watch: When Security Comes Last
“Politics is the art of the possible and all that, but it still feels uncomfortable to use the safety of a country’s Jews as a bargaining chip in a fight over the correct number of prison beds,” snarks Commentary’s Seth Mandel. Such is a “current debate in Belgium.” Antisemitic violence prompted officers to call for troopers to assist police in defending Jews. But Justice Minister Annelies Verlinden and her celebration demand one other downside be fixed that first. “I’m sure Verlinden’s concern for prison overcrowding is legitimate,” however “counterterrorism isn’t the sort of thing one can just horse-trade away.” Such video games expose how Europeans might be “startlingly callous and dismissive about the security picture.”
Libertarian: Just Kill the Jones Act
To “mitigate the short-term disruptions to the oil market,” President Trump issued a 60-day waiver of the 1920 Jones Act, “an openly protectionist piece of legislation” mandating that “any cargo shipped from one American port to another must be carried by” US-flagged vessels, notes Reason’s Eric Boehm. These “restrictions on shipping only inflate prices and limit trade” and impose inefficiencies similar to routing shipments by means of overseas ports merely to skirt the rule. But “temporarily waiving the enforcement of a bad law” solely “underlines the law’s failures.” Each waiver of this law in numerous crises makes “the logic for keeping it in place seem more strained.” The complete difficulty “once again” exhibits the “foolishness of protectionism.”
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Conservative: DHS Shutdown Will Cost Dems
Videos of “members of Congress being escorted by officials to the front of security lines in order to board a flight” imply large bother for the Democrats in Congress who are actually “making life miserable for millions of ordinary Americans by refusing to fund Homeland Security,” thunders Liz Peek at The Hill. Dems gripe is with ICE, however its funding has already “been approved by Congress,” so “shutting down Homeland Security is pointless.” Plus, incoming Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullin has “agreed to further soften the immigration enforcement tactics used by ICE.” “Do Democrats really want to amend ICE’s practices, or simply to batter the White House on its immigration policies?” Their stunt leaves TSA staff “without pay” in order that “millions of travelers are being inconvenienced.” “Let us hope voters punish them this fall.”
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DC beat: DOGE Is in Stealth Mode
The Department of Government Efficiency, famously “tasked with downsizing bloated federal agencies and rooting out fraud,” has now “all but vanished from the political conversation” after such “notable early successes” as “dismantling USAID” and uncovering a “scheme by Biden officials to hide $20 billion in environmental grants” deposited “at a financial institution outside the government.” But Mark Hemingway experiences on the American Mind that the work nonetheless goes on. Sam Corcos, a former DOGE worker now on the Treasury Department, says “we’re actually able to do more now than we were before, but it’s just not as in your face.” Ex-DOGE staff have moved to “more established” companies, Hemingway cheers, and are uncovering fraud like thousands and thousands of stolen Social Security numbers and billions in Medicaid fraud.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
