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Liberal: The DSA’s Demographic Sweet Spot
“The most Democratic voting group in America,” notes Silver Bulletin’s Nate Silver, is “voters with postgraduate degrees but lower-to-middle household incomes of $30K to $60K per year.” And it’s “very much also the sweet spot for the DSA,” whose own “most recent member survey” revealed that “80 percent of members aged 25 or older had bachelor’s degrees” whereas “45 percent had household incomes below $60,000 per year.” (In distinction, “the most Republican voters in the country” are “high-earners who didn’t attend college.”) As “college-educated, mostly younger, mostly white progressives who are disillusioned by their economic opportunities,” this group “typically uses ‘post-material’ cultural issues as their rallying points” — that means “gay rights, trans rights, the environment, race relations and Israel/Palestine.” They need “to feel as though they’re part of some greater, more altruistic struggle against corrupt elites or injustice.”
Wildfire watch: Trouble in Two Countries
Smoke from Canada’s wildfires final week “shrouded cities from Minneapolis to New York in an apocalyptic haze” as “more than 3.9 million acres have burned this year,” observe Shawn Regan & Sean Speer at City Journal. Climate change is the everyday “scapegoat” for wildfires, however President Trump “blamed Canada’s “Willful Negligence” in failing to handle its forests” and “threatened to add the smoke’s “incalculable” prices” to Canada’s tariffs. In reality, “the charge of negligence” on wildfires applies to each nations as they neglect essential work like “forest thinning, brush clearance, and prescribed burning.” Canada has began to “recognize the problem,” with some provinces doing more. “American forests need the same attention,” however three prevention measures “await Senate action.” Argh! “Managing these forests is better and cheaper than watching them burn.”
From the suitable: Daylight Robbery
The House simply handed “the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025,” which “‘protects’ sunshine in the evening at the expense of sunshine in the morning” — with little “consideration of its consequences,” contends Jeffrey H. Anderson at The Federalist. Daylight Saving Time works in the spring and summertime as a result of “most Americans . . . have little desire to be awakened” at 4:30 a.m. But “applying Daylight Saving Time year-round would ‘push winter sunrises to an absurdly late hour.’” For instance, “the sun wouldn’t rise until 9:12 a.m. in Grand Rapids, Michigan,” on Christmas morning. And eliminating DST “would present the opposite problem.” It’s simply “foolish” to use DST in winter; let’s hope “the Senate sees this more clearly.”
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Conservative: Court-Bashers’ Supreme Ignorance
All too many Supreme Court critics lately, notes National Review’s Dan McLaughlin, “are lacking any sort of rigor or perspective, and many of them outright mislead their audiences”; this contains not simply “overheated writers,” however “prominent members of the judiciary.” Indeed, “The current poster boy for juvenile tantrum-throwing” is Todd Eddins, a lefty justice of Hawaii’s Supreme Court, who simply issued a judicial opinion rife with “hysteria” and a “purple-prosed series of ad hominems” denouncing the conservative US Supreme Court justices that displayed his ignorance of their precise concepts. The left retains attempting to justify packing the court docket, however “there isn’t a nonideological rationale for Court-packing. Nobody believes there is. It’s just a desire for different results.”
From the left: AP’s Execrable Style Guide
The new AP type information exemplifies a “drift away from neutral copy toward pre-loaded jargon” that has now formed a “content landscape” “filled with ‘soulless slop’,” fumes Racket News’ Matt Taibbi. For “any person who enjoys good writing,” fashionable type guides are “a horror to read,” embracing “bad writing habits like redundancy and imprecision” and offering “great heaping gobs of ideology in their visions of prose style.” They advude writers “not to use a lot of excellent words like ‘insane’ and ‘demented’ and ‘crazy’ outside of quotes” simply because they’re “derogatory.” A “clear-thinking person should say what he or she means,” however politics in America has “devolved into a series of wars about word choice,” pushing everybody to second-guess their own ideas.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
