Libertarian: Reject all Cancel Culture
Since the Trump shooting, right-wing influencers have deployed their own version of cancel culture, fumes Reason magazine’s Billy Binion. On Facebook and X, “Chaya Lyczyk, the woman behind the popular TikTok social media account Libs,” shared screenshots of “a bunch of random people making random comments” about the shooting in Bethel, Pennsylvania. One of them, Darcy Waldron Pinckney, lost her job at Home Depot after Lyczyk blasted her for lamenting the assassin’s poor aim. It’s obviously “wrong” to “cheering” an assassination attempt, but it’s also wrong to “weaponize millions of followers to turn a random woman into a national pariah.” It’s especially “ironic that the people leading this mob are the same people who have repeatedly, and rightly, denounced mob justice for the past few years.”
Cultural Critic: America’s Stark Choice
“The horrific assassination attempt on Donald Trump seems clearly an extension of our depressing political tendencies,” argues Yuval Levin of the Free Press. But “what the would-be assassin on Saturday did was different.” The bullet “symbolizes the alternative to constitutional democracy” – “the only alternative.” “Beyond the boundaries of constitutionalism lies the realm of violence and suffering,” Levin writes. “It’s a very good sign to see the alternative to constitutional democracy up close and feel disgust.” “Taking the Trump assassination attempt seriously” would “reaffirm both the necessity for the boundaries of our politics and the politics that take place within those boundaries.” Political violence is not “inevitable,” but “a choice we make at our peril.”
From the right: The oligarchy leaves the Democratic Party
“The oligarchic elite is increasingly split between two miserable old men competing to run the country,” quips Spiked’s Joel Kotkin. “Donors to Trump tend to be wealthy investors who aren’t too tied to shareholders or boards of directors. In contrast, the corporate elite have supported the Democrats and Biden, at least so far.” But the “Democrats’ tendency toward anti-Zionism” could “alienate key supporters,” and “many on Wall Street are troubled by Biden’s handling of economic issues.” Moreover, “Biden is largely in thrall to the environmental lobby,” while many of Trump’s supporters “have ties to the fossil fuel industry.” “The oligarchic now being divided actually means a golden opportunity for the rest of us to take back our country from a system dominated by a small number of like-minded people.”
RNC beat: The link between Jew-hatred and ‘public unrest’
At their convention, Republicans linked “street violence against Jews” to progressives’ “obsession with general order.” Commentary’s Seth Mandel praised this as “what we need to do to combat anti-Semitism in America.” In the end, the surge in Jew-hatred “has more to do with America than it does with Israel.” Nikki Haley put the “rising anti-Semitism” in the context of “communities ravaged by crime.” Shabbos Kestenbaum, who is suing Harvard for anti-Semitism, said she supports “Donald Trump’s policies that insist on penalizing foreign students who break our laws and violate our freedoms.” Mandel argues that Republicans are not treating Jew-hatred as “the result of a foreign conflict” that must be solved “over there.” And it “feels like a breakthrough for the Jewish community.”
Conservative Party: Standing up to EU blackmail
“Faced with a new attack by the EU’s protectionist blackmail machine, Company X should not comply with any fines and should threaten to withdraw from the European market,” slams Tom Logan of the Washington Examiner. Elon Musk’s company is not alone: ”It is often the largest U.S. companies that face the EU’s excessive wrath.” EU regulators have “fined Google $4.5 billion and Apple $2 billion” for alleged “anti-competitive behavior,” filed lawsuits against Apple and “Meta,” and argued that “the company’s Facebook and Instagram operations do not do enough to combat disinformation and have unfair subscription models.” U.S. companies are seen as “easy prey for squeezing revenue and weakening intellectual property protections.” “If the EU continues down this path, the U.S. should target EU companies.”
Edited by: Post Editorial Board
