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Moderate: Gavin Discovers Men
California Gov. Gavin Newsom instructed CNN Democrats “ceded ground” on the “struggles” of younger males and “it has cost them electorally.” Michael Bahareen at UnHerd agrees: “Democrats, especially liberal Democrats, often seem uncomfortable speaking to the plight of men.” Newsom seeks to deal with how males are “now falling behind women” in lots of areas, however many Democrats nonetheless imagine that “men remain widely more ‘privileged’ than women” and that “traditional masculinity” is “problematic.” Newsom warns: “We can’t afford, from an electoral perspective, to lose these folks.” Cautions Bahareen: Newsom supplies “a good model for other Democrats” by assembly “young men where they are” and displaying “he cares about them” — however that gained’t do a lot except you “offer them more than just words.”
From the left: Canada’s Tortured Talk on Killing
“Linguistic tap-dancing” across the killing of 300 diseased ostriches in Canada would’ve been “less unnerving,” suggests Racket’s Matt Taibbi, had it not so clearly echoed “Canada’s aggressive word-twisting during the Covid pandemic,” in addition to its “more recent literary inventions around the country’s euthanasia craze.” In 2021, Canada “opened the door on mass Kevorkianism” by growing eligibility for assisted suicide to incorporate people with a “grievous and irremediable medical condition,” versus the imminently dying. “In a flash, assisted suicide” turned one of Canada’s main causes of death. Now, as “moral arguments against suicide have mostly vanished,” Canada is “scheduled to begin allowing euthanasia/suicide/assisted dying for people suffering from mental illness only.”
Shutdown journal: The Dems’ Real ‘Base’
“A government shutdown, as Clausewitz didn’t quite say, is the continuation of politics by other means,” snarks The Wall Street Journal’s Barton Swaim. The one which simply ended proves it. After all, Obamacare “premium increases without the subsidies” actually weren’t “worth the political risk of a five-week shutdown.” Rather, the “stunt” was meant to show the Dems’ base they’re able to battle. Sen. Chuck Schumer feared a main problem, maybe from AOC. Yet the “base” isn’t rank-and-file Democrats a lot as “cash-flush foundations, unions and activist groups”: the American Civil Liberties Union, the academics unions, Black Lives Matters, and so forth. Republicans don’t have anything comparable. And although it could be considerably true that Republicans cater to President Trump’s whims, he’ll “leave office in three years. Progressive nonprofits aren’t going anywhere.”
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Defense watch: Our Military-Recruiting U-Turn
The US army’s recruiting shortfall, “which by 2023 had become a critical national security crisis,” has turned a nook, cheer the editors of National Review. In fiscal yr 2025, “the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force all reached their recruiting goals,” with the Army surpassing it “four months before the deadline.” “There’s no doubt” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “telegenic public-relations focus on lethality, fitness, and ‘the warrior ethos’” has attracted some of the new recruits. But the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act “surely also had an impact” by raising “the base pay of junior enlisted personnel.” Plus, “the services began experimenting” with a “pre-boot-camp prep course” that has “successfully allowed recruits who don’t meet the minimum physical or academic standards” to “take the very first step of the ladder to a military career.”
From the best: DSA Dizzy After Triumph
Even because the Democratic Socialists of America “seems poised for a political breakthrough, it shows signs of unraveling,” smirks Stu Smith at City Journal: Its members are “intensely divided over whether” Zohran Mamdani’s victory represents “an electoral success or capitulation to the status quo.” Various caucuses within the DSA alternately suppose “Mamdani is too mainstream,” whereas “others see the mayor-elect as a revolutionary.” Some radical members even “believe that Mamdani has become too conservative and friendly to Israel,” and have dubbed him “ZIOhran.” So “fractured” is the DSA that Mamdani’s “ideological allies cannot agree on the purpose of his mayoralty, or even whether it’s worthwhile.”
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