From the right: Latinos Turn Republican
“The Democratic Party has historically taken Latinos for granted,” argues Soledad Ursúa at The American Mind. But “Latinos are emerging as a significant voting bloc capable of flipping blue seats red and realigning either party.” In Virginia, the Glenn Youngkin won with “55 percent of the Hispanic vote” in part because he “ran on school choice, an issue dear to Latinos who understand that education is the key to prosperity and the middle class.” If “Democrats continue towards achieving a more ‘equitable’ socialist future, which would strip us of our intergenerational aspirations, Latinos will break from the party.”
Legal expert: Justice’s ‘Sop’ to Trump Haters
“Friday’s indictment of [Trump confidant Steve] Bannon for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena is a sop to the Democrats’ Trump-deranged base,” fumes ex-federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy at National Review. The Justice Department “has rarely brought such an indictment” and has shown “no interest” in prosecuting “officials who, for example, misled the FISA court on Russiagate” or refused to cooperate in probes of Obama-era scandals. Charging Bannon will only “confirm” to “half the country” that the Biden Justice Department is “a crude weapon of the political Left — with no real interest in ‘equal justice under the law.’ ” Plus, Bannon “has a good chance of beating” the charge, and so, ironically, he’s now “better positioned to avoid testifying at all.”
Republican: Watch for a Red Wave
Having witnessed “two huge Republican waves” in his time in Washington, John Feehery at The Hill expects another in 2022. Democrats have positioned themselves as “anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-free speech, anti-liberty, pro-globalist, pro-lockdown, pro-socialist, pro-COVID-19 hysteria, pro-climate hysteria.” Voters “blame the Democrats and the president for inflation and high gas prices” and “blame the whole progressive movement for cancel culture, wokeness, defunding of the police and a general disdain of America and its cultural norms.” So “the Republicans don’t need a crazy agenda full of promises they can’t keep. . . All the GOP has to say is ‘we are not them’ and they will have a very good election.” Indeed, “If the GOP screws this one up, it will be the most epic fail in history.”
Conservative: The ‘Misinformation’ Monopolists
From Kyle Rittenhouse to Brett Kavanaugh, Nick Sandmann and Hunter Biden’s laptop, the public has gotten horrific distortions blared by “the amplifying loop that connects agenda-driving traditional news organizations, culture-shaping digital sites, knowledge-delimiting search engines, and information-controlling social media platforms,” roars The Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker — falsehoods from “the people who loudly proclaim their credentials as guardians of the truth.” Now they’d “like to drive out facts and arguments they don’t approve of.” Major media outfits are hiring anti-“misinformation” reporters — not to correct their own errors: “They want the memory-holing of the Hunter Biden story to be the model for all news dissemination.” Hence the push to get Facebook regulated: “They want the primary channels of digital information” to be as “closed as the rest of the media is.”
Pandemic journal: An Insane Rush To Jab Kids
“Norms of science and medicine have been flouted throughout the pandemic, but the campaign to vaccinate schoolchildren represents a new low,” thunders John Tierney at City Journal. “Ninety-five percent of people in low-income countries haven’t yet received one dose, but” officials “want to deplete the world’s still-limited supply by vaccinating more than 50 million young Americans at minimal risk from” COVID. Just 66 Americans aged 5-to-11 died with COVID in the last year, “less than the number who died from the flu in 2019.” The FDA estimates “only one death would be averted for every 1 million children vaccinated.” So just “a small number of deaths from unforeseen side effects” would “result in a net loss of life,” and researchers “have already identified several rare but worrisome side effects.” The push to jab these kids goes “against ethics and evidence.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board