By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2024-11-13 22:59:34 | Updated at 2024-11-23 08:02:40
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From the right: Trump’s Big Rainbow Win
After “Republicans ran the table last week,” muses the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Reilly, it’s clear “Trump’s popularity has grown since he left office” — especially grew among nonwhites.
“Since 2012 there has been a 15-point shift toward Republicans among black voters, a 32-point shift among Asians, and a 38-point shift among Latinos.”
Trump understood “that what distinguishes black and Hispanic voters in 2024 is their working-class status more so than their skin color.”
After “millions of unvetted foreign nationals flooded the country . . . and the lion’s share settled in migrant communities,” it’s “no surprise that Latinos responded in frustration.”
“If black voters are headed in the same direction” as Latinos, “it’s another welcome political trend.”
Republican: Abortion Failed To Save Dems
Democrats lost big on their bet that President-elect Donald Trump was “in trouble on the issue of abortion,” observes Mick Mulvaney at The Hill.
“Ten states had abortion issues on the ballot on Election Day,” yet Dems’ dreams “of riding the abortion rights train to a White House-House-Senate trifecta” proved fanciful.
Voters OK’d abortion-rights initiatives “in Montana, Nevada and Arizona,” yet “the exact same electorates in those states also gave the White House to Trump.”
In Montana “the issue passed with 58 percent of the vote. But those same voters gave Trump a 20-point win.”
Ultimately, voters decided “what Trump was pushing during the election: Abortion is none of the federal government’s business, and the issue is best dealt with in state capitals.”
Climate beat: Speaking an Unspoken Truth
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, host of the UN climate summit, opened it by arguing for “the ongoing exploitation of fossil fuels” and blasting “the hypocrisy of the West’s green virtue-signallers,” marvels Spiked’s Fraser Myers.
Aliyev “had a point.” Yes, he rules a “petrostate,” so he’s bound to be a fossil-fuel fan.
But “finally, someone has made explicit” what most leaders “refuse to say out loud:” Ending the use of oil and gas is “not an option for nations that want to thrive.”
They know “Net Zero dogma” is a “recipe for poverty” and are “right to reject” it.
Indeed, “the sooner we retire the West’s decadent green fantasies, the brighter humanity’s future will start to look.”
Liberal: Adieu, Trump Derangement Syndrome
“It’s hard to shake Trump Derangement Syndrome,” but “if you continue to wallow in your TDS, the only thing it’s going to lead to is high blood pressure,” warns The Free Press’ Joe Nocera.
“During the four years he was out of office, my TDS went into overdrive.”
“I was hardly alone. Think about the founders of The Lincoln Project,” or the likes of Adam Schiff, Rachel Maddow and all the members of “the so-called ‘Resistance’ ” who “only hurt their cause” every time they compared Trump to Hitler, turning off “fair-minded independents.”
Now, “the voters have spoken.” “This time around, I will undoubtedly oppose Trump’s policies, but I’m not going to set my hair on fire every time he says something I don’t like.”
Libertarian: Less Government = Less Fear
“At a time when Americans worry” that the power of the state is used to punish “political enemies,” Reason’s J.D. Tuccille notes that “a government employee just got caught doing what many people fear has become common practice: politicizing the use of government power” with news that FEMA workers were told “to deny assistance to Trump supporters affected by Hurricane Milton.”
The “use of government agencies as political weapons isn’t new.”
The IRS targeted “‘Tea Party’ groups for unfair treatment” over a decade ago.
When “a government official is caught denying services to opponents of the current administration,” taxpayers rightly wonder if “the rot goes much deeper.”
If our political factions won’t operate without turning on their enemies, “the answer to abusive government is less government.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
