Libertarian: Reject All Cancel Culture
Since the Trump shooting, righty influencers have engaged in their own brand of cancel culture, fumes Reason’s Billy Binion . On Facebook and X, “Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the popular Libs of TikTok social media accounts,” has shared screenshots of “random people making crass comments” about the shooting in Bethel, Pa. One of them, Darcy Waldron Pinckney, lost her job at Home Depot after Raichik blasted her for lamenting the would-be assassin’s poor aim. “Cheering” an assassination attempt is plainly “wrong,” but so is “weaponizing millions of followers to turn a random woman into a national pariah.” It’s especially “ironic that the people leading this mob are some of the same individuals who have repeatedly — and rightly — decried mob justice over the last several years.”
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Culture critic: America’s Stark Choice
The “terrifying assassination attempt on Donald Trump seems like an obvious extension of our depressing political drift,” argues Yuval Levin at The Free Press . But “what Trump’s would-be assassin did on Saturday was different”: Those bullets “symbolize the alternative to constitutional democracy” — the “only other option.” “Beyond the bounds of constitutionalism, there is a realm of violence and pain.” “That we feel repulsed by the alternative to our constitutional democracy, having seen it up close, is a very good sign.” “Taking the Trump assassination attempt seriously” should “reaffirm both the necessity of the boundaries of our politics, and the necessity of the politics that happens within those boundaries.” Political violence is not “inevitable,” but “it is a choice we risk making.”
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From the right: The Oligarchy’s Drift From Dems
“The oligarchic elite has become increasingly divided between the two miserable old men competing to run the country,” cracks Spiked’s Joel Kotkin . “Trump donors tend to be rich investors” who are “less beholden to shareholders or a board of directors. In contrast, big corporate elites have, at least until now, favoured the Democrats and Biden.” But “the Democratic Party’s drift towards anti-Zionism” may “alienate key backers,” and “many on Wall Street are distressed by Biden’s handling of economic issues.” Plus, “Biden is largely a prisoner of the green lobby,” while many Trump backers “have ties to the fossil-fuel industry.” “That the oligarchs are now divided actually represents a great opportunity for the rest of us to reclaim our country from” a system “dominated by a likeminded few.”
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RNC beat: Jew-Hate’s Link to ‘General Disorder’
Republicans at their convention connected “street violence against Jews” to progressives’ “attachment to general disorder” — something “necessary to fight anti-Semitism in America,” cheers Commentary’s Seth Mandel . After all, the surge in Jew-hatred “arguably has more to do with America than with Israel.” Nikki Haley, for one, noted the “rise in anti-Semitism” in the context of “communities devastated by crime.” Shabbos Kestenbaum, who’s suing Harvard over its antisemitism, says he backs “Donald Trump’s policies of insisting on consequences for foreign students who violate our laws and desecrate our freedoms.” Republicans, argues Mandel, aren’t treating Jew-hatred as “a result of a foreign conflict” that must be solved “over there.” And that “feels like a breakthrough for the Jewish community.”
Conservative: Face Down EU Extortion
“Facing a new attack from the European Union’s protectionist extortion racket, X should refuse to comply with any fines and threaten to withdraw from the European marketplace,” thunders the Washington Examiner’s Tom Rogan . Elon Musk’s company isn’t alone as “it tends to be major American companies that face the EU’s excess wrath.” EU regulators “fined Google $4.5 billion and Apple $2 billion” for alleged “anti-competitive practices,” and have opened actions against Apple and “Meta, claiming its Facebook and Instagram operations take insufficient action against disinformation and have unfair subscription models.” American companies are seen “as rich pickings from which to extract revenue and weaken intellectual property protections.” “If the EU wants to continue down this path, the U.S. should find some EU corporate targets.”
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