Liberal: Joe’s Working-Class Woes
National polls show President Biden losing to Donald Trump “but, even worse, so have a number of swing-state polls,” warns The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira.
CNN’s new surveys have the prez down by 10 points in Michigan and 5 in Georgia. Joe’s prime woe: “declining support among working-class voters.”
Some lowlights: “60 percent of Michigan working-class voters think his policies have worsened [economic] conditions, three times more than the 20 percent who believe his policies have improved them.” For Georgia working-class voters, it’s 58% vs. 22%.
In both states, “strong majorities” of these voters “see Biden as not having what they would like to see in a president on major policy positions, his ability to understand people like them and, especially, having the sharpness and stamina to do the job.”
Border watch: The Cartels Are in Control
We’re “witnessing the greatest illegal immigration crisis in American history,” thunders John Fonte at The American Mind, with 7.5 million illegal-migrant encounters since President Biden took office. Biden’s border policy “has resulted in a de facto partnership” with “violent Mexican cartels,” which made an estimated $13 billion last year.
Congress must enact House-passed legislation to “tighten asylum rules to make sure that asylum-seeking migrants” are “genuine refugees” and “limit” the Department of Homeland Security’s “parole authority” and “Biden’s bogus CBP One app program” (which DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “utterly abused”).
“Otherwise, massive migration from every corner of the planet will continue unabated, perhaps until all of America looks like today’s migrant-occupied Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.”
Urban desk: Pushback on Prog Insanity Grows
“Is sanity finally returning to America’s blue cities?” Joel Kotkin asks at UnHerd. “Places that incubated inept policies such as ‘defund the police’ and ‘sanctuary cities,’ but welcomed open-air drug use, are beginning to have second thoughts.”
In Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, lawmakers are trying to curb public drug use. Republicans might not “inherit the cities,” but Democrats face a “real struggle,” intensified by the Israel-Palestine conflict.
“The far-Left’s anti-Israel stance, combined with its disdain for law enforcement, decent education and private enterprise, are pushing many traditional Democrats” to challenge left-wing groups.
Still, for a “saner urban future, city residents will have to keep voting out progressive politicians until they start abandoning their various hare-brained schemes.”
Until then, America’s cities “will continue to deteriorate.”
From the right: Why the Rush on Trump?
If Donald Trump’s presidential-immunity claim took the normal appeals course, the Jan. 6 election-case “trial could not start on March 4” and “might stretch into 2025,” observes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.
Special counsel Jack Smith “has asked the Supreme Court to jump in and take the appeal directly, skipping the whole court of appeals process.”
Though Smith says the case “is of ‘paramount’ and ‘imperative’ public importance, he never says exactly why.”
He’s “in a hurry because he has very little time to try the case and imprison Trump before the 2024 election.”
But actually saying that “would highlight the fundamentally political nature of the prosecution”: Team Biden wants “to imprison its chief political opponent before the next election.”
Libertarian: Cali’s Pet-Euthanasia Cruelty
California’s government-funded animal shelters “are killing fields that euthanize many healthy and adoptable animals,” fumes Steven Greenhut at Reason.
An Orange County shelter “stopped walk-in visits and required appointments” during the pandemic — but maintained this practice, which hampers adoptions, after the pandemic’s end. “It’s just the latest instance of government putting the employees’ convenience above the public good.”
Shelters must “get rid of unneeded pandemic policies.” In 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom put $50 million toward the goal of becoming a no-kill state, but per The Sacramento Bee, “California animal shelters are euthanizing more healthy, adoptable dogs and cats than ever.”
Greenhut seethes: “Animal-care officials make excuses about increased animal abandonments and strays, but they are well-funded to handle it.” Of course, “bureaucracy rarely results in creativity and compassion.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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