By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2026-07-25 01:09:13 | Updated at 2026-07-25 06:27:27
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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 is “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” while “45 percent had household incomes below $60,000 per year.” (In contrast, “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” — meaning “gay rights, trans rights, the environment, race relations and Israel/Palestine.” They want “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 last week “shrouded cities from Minneapolis to New York in an apocalyptic haze” as “more than 3.9 million acres have burned this year,” note Shawn Regan & Sean Speer at City Journal. Climate change is the typical “scapegoat” for wildfires, but President Trump “blamed Canada’s “Willful Negligence” in failing to manage its forests” and “threatened to add the smoke’s “incalculable” costs” to Canada’s tariffs. In fact, “the charge of negligence” on wildfires applies to both countries as they neglect crucial work like “forest thinning, brush clearance, and prescribed burning.” Canada has started to “recognize the problem,” with some provinces doing more. “American forests need the same attention,” but three prevention measures “await Senate action.” Argh! “Managing these forests is better and cheaper than watching them burn.”
From the right: Daylight Robbery
The House just passed “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 because “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 example, “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 just “foolish” to apply DST in winter; let’s hope “the Senate sees this more clearly.”
Conservative: Court-Bashers’ Supreme Ignorance
All too many Supreme Court critics these days, notes National Review’s Dan McLaughlin, “are lacking any sort of rigor or perspective, and many of them outright mislead their audiences”; this includes not just “overheated writers,” but “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 just 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 actual ideas. The left keeps trying to justify packing the court, but “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 style guide exemplifies a “drift away from neutral copy toward pre-loaded jargon” that has now shaped a “content landscape” “filled with ‘soulless slop’,” fumes Racket News’ Matt Taibbi. For “any person who enjoys good writing,” modern style 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” just because they’re “derogatory.” A “clear-thinking person should say what he or she means,” but politics in America has “devolved into a series of wars about word choice,” pushing everyone to second-guess their own thoughts.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
