Dems’ grim outlook for ’26, ‘Palestine’ is a – Latest News
From the fitting: Dems’ Grim Outlook for ’26
“November 2026 may not go the way conventional wisdom suggests,” and Dems could lose, warns the Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone. During midterm elections, “the president’s party almost always loses the House and, slightly less often, Senate seats.” But this time round, “it looks like the Democrats’ baggage, especially from the Biden years, is heavier than the loads Trump Republicans must juggle.” Black marks like “the Russia collusion hoax, COVID-19 school closings, ‘transitory’ inflation, the Hunter Biden laptop, and open borders immigration” have too deeply broken” Dems’ credibility. Trump and Republicans are additionally turning into broadly in style, with “Republican gains” being “widespread while Democratic gains are scarcely visible.” “Nothing’s inevitable in politics, but so far, the Democrats have not gotten up off the floor.”
Mideast beat: ‘Palestine’ Is a Made-Up Cause
Westerners ought to “understand that the George Soros-funded agents of Jew Hate and chaos” within the streets “have zero to do with the overwhelming majority of Muslims around the world,” argues Christopher Messina at Messy Times. As Dalia Ziada, an Egyptian political analyst notes, protesters declare “ ‘Palestine’ is the cause of all Muslims,” however there’s “no trace of anything called ‘Palestine’ or anything similar to it in the Quran or the Prophetic Hadiths!” Indeed, the “Palestinian Cause” was “invented by the Pan-Arabist communists,” who “attached it to Islam” to “fool ordinary Muslims” and gain “legitimacy” to commit crimes towards nations “in the East and the West.” “I am a Muslim,” however Palestine “will never be my cause,” as a result of it hinders “peace” — “a divine obligation of all Muslims.”
Former U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the National Bar Association’s one hundredth Annual Awards Gala in Chicago on July 31, 2025. REUTERS
Capitol watch: Rep’s War on DC Dementia
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) needs a “way for Congress to evaluate whether some politicians are no longer fit to serve,” experiences The Free Press’ Gabe Kaminsky. Most Dems “would rather talk about anything other than the Biden cover-up — and the wider problem of the gerontocracy that runs the party and Washington.” But, Gluesenkamp Perez is pushing“an amendment that would direct the Office of Congressional Conduct to develop a standard to determine House members’ ‘ability to perform the duties of office unimpeded by significant irreversible cognitive impairment.’ ” Some Democratic colleagues took her transfer “personally,” and it “failed in her first attempt to tuck it into a federal spending bill, with Democrats and Republicans all voting against its inclusion.” But her workplace is “still exploring avenues to build a coalition.”
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Liberal: Democrats’ Best Way Back
“The Democratic Party faces a conundrum,” observes the Liberal Patriot’s John Halpin. Despite President Trump’s struggles with voters on “his overall job approval rating” and amongst particular points, “Democrats are doing even worse with Americans.” They’ve tumbled “from roughly a 3-point net unfavorable rating just before [Joe] Biden was elected in 2020 to a 30-point net unfavorable rating today.” With polls exhibiting more than half of voters consider “Congress isn’t doing enough to keep Trump in line,” a 2026 message “arguing for divided government to stop Republican overreach” could help “Democrats to retake the House.” Ahead of 2028, Democrats ought to offer “new voices without cultural baggage” and a message of “economic uplift for America’s working- and middle-class families.”
Foreign desk: Chinese Dam’s Regional Threat
China has “officially acknowledged” that it’s building “the biggest dam ever conceived,” gasps Brahma Chellaney at The Hill. The construction will “generate nearly three times as much hydropower” as the huge Three Gorges Dam however “portends a looming geopolitical and environmental crisis.” The new dam “is on a geologic fault line — a recipe for catastrophe.” Moreover, “capturing silt-laden waters before they reach India and Bangladesh, the dam will starve” farmers of essential riparian vitamins. While China’s dam-building “has long alarmed downstream nations, from Vietnam and Thailand to Nepal,” this project “raises profound questions about regional stability.” By seizing control over regional water, “China is methodically locking in future geopolitical leverage.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
