Libertarian: Media Still in Denial
After 2016, “a healthy media might have learned from its mistakes, engaged in soul-searching and tried to gain some insights into the working-class coalition that Trump had assembled,” but instead, this year they touted polls that were no more accurate, sighs Reason’s Robby Soave. They primed the public for “a blowout that never materialized.” Not only were they wrong about Trump’s popularity; they’re also “unable to admit that a Democratic Party held hostage by liberal arts graduates who write their preferred pronouns on their name tags might be out of touch with the working-class voters who traditionally vote blue.” Most outlets all but refused to report anything that might’ve helped Trump, and “as independent thinkers exit the mainstream media, groupthink and blind spots among the legacy press are likely to get worse.” That result would be “a travesty, and not an outcome anyone should want or root for.”
Election desk: Women Fueled GOP Wins
“More than 20 Republican women are headed to the House,” observes Yuichiro Kakutani at The Washington Free Beacon, including six who flipped seats to the GOP on election night,” in what New York’s Rep. Elise Stefanik, who spearheaded a push to recruit women candidates, called a “smashing success” — and a sign Democrats have no monopoly over women’s votes. Indeed, it was women, notes Kakutani, who fueled “a Republican offensive that chipped away at Democratic control of the House,” winning six out of the seven flipped races. These women, Stefanik argued, felt “the party of Nancy Pelosi” simply does not “represent the vast majority of women.”
Iconoclast: The Left’s Self-Sabotage
Democrats’ failure to win the Senate sets up a victorious Joe Biden to be “a weak, ineffectual president governing at the mercy of Mitch McConnell’s Machiavellian machinations,” The Week’s Damon Linker points out. Democrats drove voters away by promising “a series of institutional changes that would entrench their power far into the future.” Yet their platform turned out to be “the most effective [get-out-the-vote] operation for the GOP imaginable.” If Biden makes the same mistake of overreach during his presidency, the 2022 midterm election will see a “conservative backlash” that renders his “administration even more fully dead in the water.” Much of the left may finally be realizing that half the country is not willing to submit to their “giddy plans” — and “the sooner the Democrats learn to live with that fact, the better.”
From the right: Killing California Retailers
California’s shoplifting reforms have been devastating retail businesses, The Wall Street Journal’s editors report. After the Golden State reduced criminal charges for theft of property under $950 to a misdemeanor in 2014, it triggered a kleptomania boom that crippled stores. “Police stopped apprehending shoplifters because it wasn’t worth their time,” and public officials even nixed store-led initiatives, such as requiring shoplifters to take life skills classes to avoid a criminal complaint. “Silicon Valley gentry,” who “can insulate themselves from social disorder caused by progressive policies” and unions, have no problem opposing harsher penalties. “As ever, the rich can insulate themselves from social disorder caused by progressive policies. Everyone else can’t.”
Education guru: School Closures Are ‘Insane’
At the Fordham Institute site, education expert Chester E. Finn Jr. wonders how Americans would feel if “doctors, nurses, policemen, firemen and postal workers simply opted to stay home — and their unions defended them,” because of the pandemic, as is the case with teachers. “Are schools essential or aren’t they? Are teachers essential workers or aren’t they?” Alas, public schools, like those in Montgomery County, Md., where Finn lives, have remained closed, because “unions are obdurate.” The closures are “insane and irresponsible. We know from a thousand sources that almost all kids are better off in school, both for purposes of academic learning and for all manner of” and social- and emotional-learning benefits. Sure, there are risks. But the question is “whether those risks are greater” for kids and society “than keeping schools closed.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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