By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2025-01-06 21:40:06 | Updated at 2025-01-11 11:42:07
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Centrist: Democrats Need To Play Ball
In GOP-dominated Washington, Dems face “a crossroads: Resistance at all costs or adopt a policy of strategic cooperation with the Trump administration. For the good of the Democratic Party, and indeed the country, Democrats must choose the latter,” argues Doug Schoen at The Hill.
After voters nixed “Democrats’ approach to key issues such as the economy, immigration, crime, government waste, and social issues, across-the-board resistance is simply bad politics.”
No “need to abandon their principles”; fight away “if the administration veers to the extreme.”
But “the party will be best served by working with the administration to forge bipartisan compromise on the most important issues facing the country,” such as “the economy, immigration, crime and cutting government excess.”
Immigration desk: The German Alternative
“The Alternative for Germany is a leper in German political life” because it opposes “Germany’s lax immigration policies,” notes City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald.
And “commitment to unlimited migration from non-Western countries is today the West’s constitutive principle,” so Western elites have equated the party with Nazis.
“But the tide is turning in Germany.” “Establishment parties across Europe have been trying to co-opt the populist immigration message.”
“Border checkpoints have gone up throughout Europe in the last half-year.”
“Mass immigration into the West is the defining issue of the twenty-first century. The AfD and its continental counterparts realize how precious is the Western inheritance and how urgently it deserves defense. Their warnings should be heeded before it is too late.”
From the right: Perilous Anti-Trump Conspiracies
At times, leftist efforts against Donald have been “sinister — and conspiratorial,” setting “precedents, if ever again followed,” that would “destroy the republic as we have known it,” warns Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness.
In Russiagate, “a paranoid Clinton campaign” hired Christopher Steele “to fabricate a ‘dossier’ of invented scandals . . . to smear Trump.”
Then 2021-2024 brought “91 local, state, and federal felony indictments” against Trump, with charges “so blatantly political” that the effort “could be rightly termed a conspiracy” to destroy “a political opponent.”
Meanwhile, “the media and the Democratic left conspired to hide the morbidities” of President Biden. “The final irony?”
The perpetrators of these efforts “were themselves the first and most prominent to project Trump as the promulgator of conspiracies.”
Conservative: UK at Last Facing Child-Rape Horror
A few tweets from Elon Musk, and “Britain now stands shamed before the world,” cheers Dominic Green at The Free Press.
Now “bubbling to the surface” is “the public’s suppressed wrath” over “the grooming and serial rape of thousands of English girls by men of mostly Pakistani Muslim background over several decades.”
Beyond the crimes’ “heinous nature” is the fact “that every level of the British system is implicated in the cover-up,” as “charities, NGOs, and Labour MPs accused those who discussed the scandal of racism and Islamophobia.”
Details from the few prosecutions are “sickening to read: The girls were drugged, beaten, sodomized, gang-raped, trafficked, and tortured.”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who “as director of the Crown Prosecution Service” 2008-2013 “secured some successful convictions against the rape gangs” but “also failed to bring other major cases to court,” is in the crosshairs.
Health beat: Overblown Risks = More Gov’t
“Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has done more to politicize science and erode trust in public-health leaders than anyone other than Anthony Fauci,” thunders The Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley.
His latest “headline-grabbing report” claims alcohol consumption is a “leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States” — contrary to a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report.
Worse: “More government is Dr. Murthy’s prescription for every social and public-health ailment” while ignoring “actual public-health problems like teenage marijuana use or post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans.”
“Good riddance” to him.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
