Democrats Must Engage: Insights on the German Alternative and Additional Commentary
Centrist: Democrats Must Engage
In a Washington dominated by the GOP, Democrats confront a pivotal moment: “Resistance at all costs” versus “strategic cooperation with the Trump administration.” For the sake of both the Democratic Party and the nation, Democrats should opt for the latter,” asserts Doug Schoen in The Hill.
With voters rejecting the Democrats’ stance on crucial topics like the economy, immigration, crime, government inefficiency, and social issues, total resistance proves to be imprudent politics.
There is no “need to forsake their principles”; they should push back “if the administration strays to the extreme.”
However, “the party will be best served by collaborating with the administration to achieve bipartisan agreements on vital issues,” including “the economy, immigration, crime, and reducing government waste.”
Immigration Desk: The German Option
“The Alternative for Germany has become a pariah in German politics” for opposing “Germany’s permissive immigration policies,” as Heather Mac Donald notes in City Journal.
Moreover, “the commitment to unrestricted migration from non-Western countries is now the West’s foundational principle,” leading Western elites to associate the party with Nazism.
“However, a shift is occurring in Germany.” “Establishment parties across Europe are attempting to adopt the populist immigration narrative.”
“Border checkpoints are reemerging throughout Europe over the past six months.”
“Mass immigration into the West is the crucial issue of the twenty-first century. The AfD and its European counterparts recognize the value of the Western legacy and the urgent need for its defense. Their warnings should be heeded before it’s too late.”
From the Right: Threatening Anti-Trump Theories
At times, the left’s actions against Donald have been “sinister — and conspiratorial,” establishing “precedents that, if repeated, would “upend the republic as we’ve known it,” cautions Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness.
During Russiagate, a “paranoid Clinton campaign” enlisted Christopher Steele “to create a ‘dossier’ of fabricated scandals to tarnish Trump.”
Then 2021-2024 saw “91 local, state, and federal felony indictments” against Trump, with charges “so overtly political” that it could genuinely be regarded as a conspiracy” aimed at dismantling “a political rival.”
Concurrently, “the media and the Democratic left colluded to obscure President Biden’s ailments. “The ultimate irony?”
The very individuals behind these efforts “were the first and most prominent to portray Trump as the originator of conspiracies.”
Conservative: UK Confronts Child-Rape Scandal
After a few tweets from Elon Musk, “Britain now faces global disgrace,” writes Dominic Green in The Free Press.
The public’s suppressed outrage over “the grooming and systematic rape of thousands of English girls by predominantly Pakistani Muslim men over several decades” is now “bubbling to the surface.”
Apart from the crimes’ “appalling nature,” it is evident “that every layer of the British system is involved in the cover-up,” as “charities, NGOs, and Labour MPs dismissed those discussing the scandal as racists and Islamophobes.”
Details from the scant prosecutions are “disturbing to digest: The girls were drugged, beaten, sodomized, gang-raped, trafficked, and tortured.”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who “as director of the Crown Prosecution Service” from 2008-2013 “secured a handful of successful convictions against the rape gangs” yet “failed to prosecute significant other cases,” is under scrutiny.
Health Update: Exaggerated Risks = Increased Government Control
“Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has contributed more to the politicization of science and the decline of trust in public health leaders than anyone except Anthony Fauci,” declares Allysia Finley in The Wall Street Journal.
His latest “media-catching report” claims that alcohol consumption is a “major preventable cause of cancer in the United States,” which contradicts a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report.
Even worse: “More government intervention is Dr. Murthy’s solution for every social and public health issue” while neglecting “real public health concerns like teenage marijuana use or PTSD among veterans.”
“Goodbye” to him.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
