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I am always wary of those who purport to speak for their respective generation, and a recent New York Post op-ed by a self-espoused libertarian student at New York University put on full display exactly what the Republican Party must abandon in the years ahead.

In close to 700 words, writer Rikki Schlott calls for the GOP to compromise on social and environmental issues and stand up to leftist extremism, ignoring that these two are different sides of the same strategic coin. Schlott concedes a talking point that merely assists the left in its campaign to smear Republicans especially those in Gen Z as operating in extremist fringes who need to be like their predecessors and champion old neoconservatism.

As the GOP rebrands in the post-Trump, post-pandemic era, it has a huge opportunity to make inroads with this new, open-minded contingent, she writes. But appealing to Gen Z will require significant modernization and compromise. Calls for progress are coming from young voters of every political persuasion. In fact, while Gen Z Democrats are almost politically identical to their older counterparts, generationaldifferences among Republicans are far more stark.

Even if we are to submit to polling that finds Gen Z is driven by anti-Trump backlash and more Independent than categorically conservative appealing to Gen Z and its supposed more moderate nature should be far from the primary, secondary, or tertiary objective of the Trump-shifted GOP. As Evita Duffy pointed out in The Federalist last year, polling indicates Gen Z, even while in their likely most liberal youthful years, are significantly more socially moderate than millennials.

Thus, the idea that appealing to Gen Z will require significant modernization and compromise is ill-supported, and a losing strategy. Conservatives who wish to target the lefts institutional monopoly and overhaul of morally shared principles would lay themselves a booby trap by continuing to compromise with the radically left Democratic Party of today.

The GOP ought to instead focus on reinforcing social conservatismas advantageous. Not doing so is a naive rejection of the last four years, which proved there is a massive constituency for taking on the culture war rather than conceding it. Republicans in the past have neglected these voters in favor of the same old fiscal promises that never materialize.

If the GOP can deliver viable, free-market alternatives to the restrictive environmental policies coming from the left, their appeal to Gen Z would skyrocket, Schlott argues. Pushing for innovation and offering economic incentives to businesses fighting climate change is just one way the GOP could show its on team green.

The very last thing Republicans should be doing is keeping governments dead hand on the scale to push one scientific understanding of climate change and its effects, which Democrats have universally campaigned on as a means to expand government and harm the American worker. Worse, Schlott also claims it would be wise for the GOP to join this effort to destabilize the energy industry and provide more opportunities for corporations to yield even more power. In making this claim, the writer cites John Olds, the president of the essentially liberal group Gen Z GOP.

Olds says, If the GOP were to reshuffle its priorities a little bit to address generational issues and present conservative solutions, they would make huge progress with Generation Z, producing a blanket statement all too familiar from the work Gen Z GOP does.

As Saagar Enjeti rightly pointed out last summer upon the group releasing a promotional video, Gen Z GOP is basically Bidenism-lite and a product of the corporate elites who have run the Republican Party for far too long. More than just playing the old game of conservative defense, Schlott and Olds essentially call for Republicans to not be conservative at all. In all this, one wonders as always what is the point of being Republican if it is, as Phyllis Schlafly once said, merely an echo of Democrats rather than offering voters a clearly different political choice.

Meanwhile, Gen Z Republicans say society does not do enough to accept gender non-conforming people at a rate three times higher than some older Republican generations, Schlott writes. Many Gen Z voters imagine Republicans as rigid, evangelizing traditionalists. By adopting a more live-and-let-live philosophy in favor of cultural conservatism, the GOP would appeal to more young people.

A live-and-let-live philosophy is exactly what propelled America into the mess we find ourselves in today. While American jobs got shipped overseas, leftists manipulated language, sexual anarchy took over the country, and Big Tech and Big Business grew into oligarchies, Republicans pushed tax cuts and never seriously cut federal spending.

If appealing to more young people means forfeiting a moral society in favor of worshiping the application of market activities through open borders, the killing of the unborn, and allowing critical race theory to hijack the education system, you can count me out. If a free market means putting the force of law behind constituencies that demand bake the cake, bigot, its clear once again that libertarian slogans are being deceitfully deployed to destroy historic American freedoms.

In short, the GOP should work on rebranding as the modern, reasonable, solutions-oriented party, Schlott concludes. If Republicans succeed in crafting this new identity, it will make enormous strides with young voters and secure its future.

Schlott is operating on a very different definition about what is modern and reasonable than those seeking a GOP that works for more than just Wall Street. The way to solve Americas issues and connect with conservative voters is not to parrot libertarian talking points.

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki continued to rewrite history to fit the Democrat administrations agenda during her Monday press briefing by doubling down on her claims that Republicans were the ones who wanted to defund the police.

Cedric Richmond, he said Republicans defunded the police by not supporting the American Rescue Plan but how is it that that is an argument to be made when the president never mentioned needing money for police to stop the crime wave when he was selling the American Rescue Plan? Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked.

Instead of disputing the presidents senior advisers comments, Psaki overlooked months of activism from the leftists who advocated to defund and disarm cops to boost the false narrative.

The president did mention that the American Rescue Plan, state local funding something that was supported by the president, she insisted.

Psaki then went on to claim that Democrats supported the $1.9 trillion COVID spending bill to ensure local cops were kept on the beat in communities across the country.

As you know, didnt receive a single Republican vote, Psaki said. That funding has been used to keep cops on the beat.

When Doocy mentioned that the focus of funding in that bill was to help during a pandemic-related budget shortfall instead of focusing on combatting a massive crime wave, Psaki once again brushed off his concerns.

I think that any local department would argue that keeping cops on the beat to keep communities safe when they had to, because of budget shortfalls, fire police is something that helps them address crime in their local communities, Psaki continued.

Doocy continued to push back on the White Houses massive spin by pointing out the crux of the COVID act was to send more stimulus and fund vaccination campaigns, but Psaki indignantly concluded that it was a pretty good bill and piece of legislation.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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Jen Psaki Doubles Down On Claiming Republicans Wanted To Defund The Police - The Federalist

Republicans are banding together to orient policy and directives aimed at undermining critical race theory by engaging the culture war.

In a new memo, Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks urged more than 150 RSC members to reject the Democrats revolutionary posture and lean into the culture war. The RSC is the largest conservative caucus on Capitol Hill.

We are in a culture war. On one side, Republicans are working to renew American patriotism and rebuild our country, Banks wrote. On the other, Democrats have embraced and given platform to a radical element who want to tear America down.

One of the first ways the GOP can interject itself into the cultural battles facing American society is to reject the racism essentialism that Critical Race Theory teaches, the memo suggests.

We believe that individuals should be judged based on the contents of their character, not their skin. And we believe that Americas institutions should be colorblind, just as our Constitution is colorblind. This is the same vision shared by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., Banks noted.

The backlash against the racist curriculum, the memo continues, is evident in the communities that legislators represent which is why they suggest Republicans act quickly.

As House conservatives, we should be sending a signal to these concerned parents. We have your back, Banks wrote.

GOP governors and state legislatures have begun to introduce and pass policies dedicated to fighting the indoctrination of children with racist curriculum and Democrat talking points.

Change is also happening on the federal level. Just this week Texas Sen.Ted Cruz introduced a measure to prohibit federal funding of critical race theory trainings. A month earlier, Utah Rep. Burgess Owens introduced a similar bill in the House

The federal government has no right to force a political agenda onto Americans, especially one that aims to tear down our institutions and divide us based on race, Cruz said. Critical Race Theory originated out of the critical race studies movement. It is a Marxist ideology that sees the world as a battle, not between the classes as classical Marxism does but between the races. This is inherently bigoted.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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GOP Invokes Engaging The Culture War To Combat Critical Race Theory - The Federalist

House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter to his conference Sunday night pledging an alternative framework for reining in Silicon Valleys empire to the bipartisan package unveiled earlier this month.

Todays Big Tech behemoths were once the gold standard of entrepreneurism and innovation, McCarthy wrote. They took on incumbents, created new services, and transformed what our economy looks like today. Innovation and competition is what makes a free economy stronger, and ultimately, our lives better. But Big Techs idea of competition today is corrupted.

McCarthy emphasized tackling online censorship as the focal point of the new package with a focus on three primary areas: accountability, transparency, and anti-trust review. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who serves as the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Cathy Rodgers, as the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, will spearhead the effort.

Framework proposals include Section 230 reform of the 1996 Communications Decency Act to limit liability protections and mandated transparency among big tech platforms to publicly disclose reasons for censorship. Had the latter been in place in October, Facebook may have been forced to share the alleged reasons it suppressed blockbuster reporting from the New York Post that implicated Joe Biden in his sons potentially criminal business activities weeks before the November election. To this day, the company has yet to reveal the fact-checker findings supposedly tasked to verify the Posts claims in the story, which have since been heavily corroborated.

The new framework from GOP leadership stands in stark contrast to whats been proposed by members of the House Judiciary Committee led by Rhode Island Democrat Rep. David Cicilline and Colorado Republican Ken Buck, who respectively serve as chair and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committees Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.

Bucks legislative package is the product of an 18-month probe by the subcommittee and has drawn endorsements stretching the political spectrum from former House Democrat impeachment managers to Republicans Matt Gaetz of Florida and Burgess Owens of Utah. Absence of censorship addressed in the series of five bills introduced, however, has drawn the ire of McCarthy and Jordan, who in turn have now released plans to unveil their own alternative framework.

Bucks proposals center on implementing new antitrust laws and empowering the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (DOJ) with authority to crack down on corporate tech monopolies. In an interview with The Federalist, Buck justified the absence of new rules on censorship claiming the breakup of monopoly power is a prerequisite to dealing with viewpoint discrimination.

In my view, the only way to address censorship is by breaking up monopolies, Buck told The Federalist last week.

Yet Jordan branded Bucks legislation as a trap to foster collusion between the Silicon Valley elite and Washington bureaucrats who share sympathy for maintaining a monopoly on what people believe is truth through anti-conservative censorship.

This is going to let big tech companies collude with big tech companies to do further harm to conservatives, Jordan told The Federalist in a separate interview last week, arguing effective legislation must address suppression of dissident views.

The framework rolled out by McCarthy is not devoid of antitrust reform, which stands as the third pillar of the impending legislation.

Our framework also recognizes that the status quo and bureaucratic delays are not acceptable when it comes to bringing long-overdue antitrust scrutiny to Big Tech, McCarthy wrote. We will provide an expedited court process with direct appeal to the Supreme Court and empower state attorneys general to help lead the charge against the tech giants to break them up.

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President Joe Biden used the widely unpopular term Latinx and insinuated that all Latinos in the United States are illegal immigrants, when the vast majority of Latinos in America, more than 60 million, are U.S. citizens.

Its awful hard as well to get Latinx vaccinated, Biden said during a Thursday speech in Raleigh, North Carolina. Why? Theyre worried theyll be vaccinated and deported.

It does not occur to Joe Biden that tens of millions of Latinos are American citizens, tweeted former Trump 2020 campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh.

A study by the Pew Research Center found that only one-fourth of people living in the United States who trace their roots to Latin America and Spain have heard of the term Latinx, a gender-inclusive word for Hispanic and Latino. And only 3 percent use the term Latinx, a percentage similar across all major demographic subgroups. Many Latinos criticize the name for ignor[ing] the Spanish language and its gendered form.

What is Latinx??? one Twitter user asked. I would appreciate you stop calling us that. Its offensive. Im a #Latino and my wife is a #Latina. Somos #Latinos. Please get that straight!

According to Pew, the only people who really use Latinx are celebrities, politicians and grassroots organizations. Additionally, academic centers at community colleges, public universities and Ivy League universities are jumping on the politically correct bandwagon and rebranding Latino programs with new Latinx-focused names, despite actual Latinos rejecting the term.

Many were quick to point out (yet again) that Biden is imposing Latinx on Latinos who do not use or like the term. I cant imagine a scenario where its ok to impose an unpopular label on minorities, Texas media strategist Giancarlo Sopo wrote on Twitter.

Joe Bidens comments explain why Democrats lost so much ground with Hispanics, he said.

In the 2020 election, Trump expanded his support not only in southern Florida, but also among Latinos in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won Starr County, Texas, an area that is roughly 96 percent Latinos, with 79 percent of the vote. By contrast, in 2020, Joe Biden won by only 5 points, a swing to Republicans of more than 25 points. In nearby Zapata County, Texas, which is 85 percent Latino and historically reliably blue, the county turned red, the first time since Reconstruction that a Republican presidential candidate won Zapata County, according to the Washington Post.

Despite hoping to win over Latinos in larger margins in the future, Joe Biden and other white, left-wing elites are insistent on stereotyping all Latinos as illegal immigrants and ignoring their desire not to sacrifice the Spanish language at the woke altar.

Evita Duffy is an intern at The Federalist and a junior at the University of Chicago, where she studies American History. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, & her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1

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In case you thought it was only morally deficient journalists acting like critical race theory (CRT) is nonexistent, think again. A high school English teacher whose school was slammed by Fox News host Tucker Carlson has joined the smear parade and in no place more suitable than NBC News.

In about 800 words, educator Anne Lutz Fernandez, a former marketer and author who teaches at a prestigious public school in Connecticut, calls bluff on Americans concerned about curricula that has become influenced by neo-Marxist CRT (which curiously is not mentioned verbatim in the entire article).

The title of Fernandezs op-ed is Americas school teachers arent the Marxist cabal Fox News keeps depicting, with the skeptical subtitle, Evidence abounds that educators tend to avoid rather than dive into politically hot topics. And such hesitancy has consequences.

Fernandez works at Darien Public School District in Darien, Connecticut, a town that in 2018 was profiled as the wealthiest place in the country. She laments Carlsons prior reporting on how the district called for an increase in the race-conscious education of our students after the death of George Floyd and sent a letter singling out White Staff and White community members, a factoid Fernandez conveniently neglects to mention.

Americas K-12 schools, like the high school I teach in, are no hubs of radical indoctrination, though right-leaning newsertainment might convince you otherwise, the teacher writes. Now a rash of legislation in mostly red states seeks to restrict instruction and curriculum around divisive concepts through laws largely meant to curtail teaching about systemic racism. If that doesnt read as chilling, it should. Put another way, politicians are dictating how the public learns about history and the history those politicians are making.

If this description of why conservatives are discontent with what they view as the indoctrination of children seems familiar, it is because it is. Just like left-leaning writers in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and so on, Fernandez either misconstrues or misunderstands the situation in U.S. public schools. One can only hope it is unintentional.

Not only do schools often function as government-holding cells monopolized by well-paid consulting groups and teachers unions, but the dogma Fernandez refers to does not solely end in systemic racism training. In curricula, CRT communicates to students that they are nothing more than their identity and are responsible for all actions done by people of their same physical appearance.

Some kids are not only taught that they are inherently oppressed by their skin color, but also that some are inherently biased and racist. Buzzwords like diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism are all predicated on the intersectional hierarchy of alleged privilege.

The left denies all this even though its right there in the books and teaching materials theyre pushing. As Fernandez does, they respond that critics are oddly opposed to diversity and sensitivity training. Charles Blow phrased it this way in The New York Times, declaring CRT is supposedly just based on [i]dentifying and challenging racism, nothing more. This is false. As Christopher Rufo articulated to The Federalist earlier this week, It is a language war.

What people are opposed to, plain and simple, is racism. People oppose treating individuals differently because of the color of their skin. Thats it. Its not about sensitivity or diversity, but the use of these labels to sneak in government-endorsed racism.

While claiming that teachers avoid topics like these, Fernandez also tacitly admits that teachers do in fact bring their worldview and values into their teaching and of course they do. Teaching is not only about imparting facts, but the moral formation and shaping of a child. Like a corrupt media that claims they are objective while being horribly biased to the point of fabricating falsehoods, the teaching profession also claims a false veneer of impartiality while in fact deliberately shaping childrens attitudes and beliefs.

Fernandez describes this very dynamic in her article:

Teachers I interviewed for my book Schooled see their mission as developing skills and delivering content but also helping shape future adults; some envision their grown students as empowered citizens or global innovators, others as family-focused traditionalists. Because education is value-driven, the profession is inescapably political. Some teachers definitely embrace this by updating curriculum to reflect the concerns of their students and the nation. Today, as ever, these often involve issues of race and gender. But the profession is hardly a leftist cabal.

After claiming teachers keep politics out of the classroom while providing evidence of exactly the opposite, Fernandez also cites a 2017 Atlantic op-ed titled The Case for Contentious Curricula that states [t]eachers should not shy away from addressing controversial issues in the classroom and [t]he question is whether teachers will be empowered to address them.

So, after paragraphs of ranting about the conspiracy theorist right needlessly worried about divisive concepts, she alludes to evidence of the left seeking to undermine the system through political motivation. This is evidence either of complete lack of self-awareness or of an intent to deceive.

Healthy debate and essential education will be stunted by divisive concepts legislation, the teacher writes. While political pressure has long silenced teachers, these laws and the likely further silencing they will produce is especially dangerous in a time when the very fact of a violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol is disputed and deemed political.

For someone incessantly mocking the right as out-of-touch and living in an alternate reality, Fernandez sure comes off as doing the same.She employs an all-too-familiar tactic: Protect your radical tribe by any means necessary.

If it means deliberate deception, so be it. If it means spinning truth to protect those in power, so be it. That is, after all, what teaching children means isnt it?

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High School Teacher's NBC Op-Ed Tries To Hide What's Wrong With CRT - The Federalist

Democrat Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced on Tuesday that law enforcement will not be doing much enforcing at all.

Police officers in Portland have been told to stand down when it comes to low-level classified traffic infractions, which include broken headlights and expired plates, unless officers have determined a threat. When an officer pulls over a civilian, the policeman is now required to capture a video of consent prior to searching the vehicle, and the person may refuse.

I know we have a lot more work to do, but these changes constitute significant progress in our work to reimagine our public safety system for the better and to continue operationalizing our city core values of anti-racism, communication, collaboration, equity, transparency, and fiscal responsibility, Wheeler said. The goal of these two changes is to make our safety safer and more equitable.

Portland Police Bureau Chief Chuck Lovell participated in the conference with Wheeler, which took place over video. Lovell said the department is operating on limited resources and were trying to direct those resources most appropriately, a result of failed Democrat policies that have led to shorthanded precincts and unfettered crime.

Portland emerged as one of the first cities nationwide to defund the police, slashing the budget by $16 million in June 2020. Riots ravaged Portland for 100 days straight, as Antifa and Black Lives Matter activists took to the streets.

But given the resources that we have and the limited time officers have to do this type of enforcement, Im directing our sworn personnel to focus on safety violations and enforcement and high crash corridors, Wheeler said. Stops of nonmoving violations or lower-level infractions are still allowed, but with an emphasis on safety and have actionable investigative factor to them.

Dru Draper, communications director for the Oregon Senate GOP, told The Federalist Wheeler is going against basic data. He also indicated Democrats in the legislature are gearing up to pass a budget that only bolsters the number of Oregon State Police Troopers by 28 officers.

These traffic stops often lead to stopping larger crimes, Draper said. Over the weekend, Oregon State Police made a traffic stop and found nearly 60 pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl which are poisoning our communities. Democrats will stop at nothing to dismantle the police and render them completely ineffective at keeping Oregonians safe. They deserve better.

Since July 1, 2020, at least 130 officers have ceased to work at the department, 75 of which resigned, according to The Oregonian. While the department can employ a total of 916 officers, it now has only 812. Lovell said last week that its tough to move forward when youre really dealing with a lot of setbacks, though he seems to have given into Wheelers politically motivated move to target police.

This insane assault on cops ability to do their jobs has got to stop, Nate Hochman, a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a Portland native told The Federalist. The Portland riots, the breakdown of order, the burgeoning homelessness crisis, and the refusal from city leaders like Ted Wheeler to enforce basic laws in the city has done serious, lasting damage to the community.

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As spring quickly morphs into summer, the rotation of Jeopardy! guest hosts continues. Last Monday, NBC News correspondent and Today Show co-host Savannah Guthrie began a two-week stint behind the hosts lectern. During Guthries time as guest host, Jeopardy! will match contestants winnings and donate those funds to the Bowery Mission, a Christian soup kitchen and homeless shelter in New York City.

Guthries spot comes between two neuroscientists with dramatically different backgrounds. Mayim Bialik, an actress who obtained a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2007, preceded Guthrie. Sanjay Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon best known as CNNs chief medical correspondent, will succeed Guthrie for the episodes that start airing June 28.

The switch from Bialik to Guthrie behind the lectern resumed the parade of leftist news anchors as Jeopardy! guest hosts. Guthrie follows the likes of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who has compared President Donald Trump to an obese turtle (a comment for which he apologized), and former anchor Katie Couric, who said the former presidents supporters needed deprogramming (a comment for which she did not apologize).

I know of Guthrie most recently, and infamously, for her moderation of an NBC News town hall with Trump last October, during which she interrupted and overrode his answers and voters questions to talk about her own agenda. A simultaneous town hall with Joe Biden on ABC saw George Stephanopoulos (who will host a week of Jeopardy! episodes next month) call on voters who actually turned out to be a former Obama speechwriter and the wife of a former Democrat candidate for the Pennsylvania state senate. Stephanopoulos failed to disclose their party affiliations or connections.

Despite her leftist politics, Guthrie performed well in her first week as Jeopardy! guest host. She sounded encouraging towards contestants, without the overactive enthusiasm Couric occasionally displayed.

Although Guthrie commented how fastidious the Jeopardy! production staff were about proper pronunciation of clues, she did not commit any significant flubs on-camera. However, that accuracy might have more to do with the shows reportedly exacting and lengthy editing process for its guest hosts.

Guthrie is the tenth Jeopardy! guest host since Alex Trebeks final episodes aired in January. According to the shows schedule, another six guest hosts episodes have yet to air. (Following Gupta, the last five guest hosts Stephanopoulos, ABC anchor Robin Roberts, former Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton, CNBC host David Faber, and Fox sportscaster Joe Buck will spend one week behind the lectern rather than two.)

At this point, the roster of guest hosts is tedious. Jeopardy! has taped all of its episodes for the 37th season, although the last eight weeks havent yet aired. The show has likely already narrowed finalists for the permanent hosting role, even though it may not announce them for several more weeks.

Meanwhile, as the wheel of rotating guest hosts turns, Jeopardy! continues to drop in ratings, shedding roughly 1 million viewers since January. Of course, some of the decrease may have to do with factors completely external to the show. With warmer weather and plummeting COVID-19 cases, many people are likely making up for lost time in other social activities, rather than watching television.

But the rotation of hosts hasnt helped much, either. As the show slowly finishes its round of guest hosts, Jeopardy! producers will have to hope the announcement of a permanent host in September helps bolster Jeopardy!s falling ratings.

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Senior Editor Christopher Bedford and Assistant Editor Kylee Zempel join Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to break down President Joe Bidens bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Democrats quest to push a progressive version of the legislation through reconciliation.

Any Republican who is stupid enough to agree to this, which there are, is agreeing already to fail, Bedford said. [Democrats]offer themthis horrific deal. Republicans,if they have any brains or fortitude, which they might not, will completely balk at it and the bipartisan deal will completely fall apart.

The dialogue surrounding the infrastructure legislation has tainted it and its chances of getting through Congress, Zempel said.

This is another example of how politics is so downstream from culture because we couldnt be having a conversation about what does infrastructure mean if we hadnt veered so far just from language being accurate, Zempel said.

You dont start with a misnamed infrastructure bill. You start with the AP adopting them and their as like acceptable pronoun use. This is a result of a decade of words being completely misdefined. This is a political result of a cultural phenomenon, not the other way around, she said.

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Something strange is afoot in the party of Jefferson.With the Democrats still spinning after the collapse of their election bill and progressives furious with the White Houses seeming lack of commitment to that effort the president has already pivoted, announcing a plan to tackle the violent crime wave besetting American cities.

And the vice president? Shes on her way to the border, 91 days, two countries, and countless laughs after it was first assigned by the boss.

Some might notice that cracking down on rampant crime and tackling a crisis at the border were not topics of discussion when now-President Joe Biden and now-Vice President Kamala (briefly) shared a debate stage two years ago. In fact, it was quite the opposite, littered with jabs and brags about who was more anti-cop or more open-border. So what gives?

If you get your news from Democrats or their palace guards in corporate media, you might think the White House was forced into this by wicked Republicans and dastardly conservative media.

Republicans, led by former President Donald Trump, are attempting to pin the rash of violence on the White House, even though increases in gun violence happened during the previous administration, Politico claimed, as if their readers cant remember a full year of Democratic defund-the-police schemes.

Conservative media outlets are carrying a steady stream of foreboding headlines highlighting the rise of year-over-year shootings and homicides, they added, for good measure.

Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to the U.S.-Mexico border this week, Politico opened another article, amid an unrelenting chorus of criticism from Republicans over her failure to visit there.

Some might say that the other party was for defunding the police, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki even said during Wednesdays press conference, citing the GOPs pushback on a Democratic social-workers bill.

Of course, none of the above scribes actually think Republican Party pressure is the reason for this about-face, and even Psaki is smart enough to look embarrassed to try the talking point, nearly walking it back right away.

They all know that the only real reason a political party shifts focus so dramatically from its goals to issues it wishes it could avoid is terrible internal polling: numbers coming back predicting election disasters, battleground states looking dicey, voters across the country responding negatively.

People dont admit it when this is the reason (unless theyre Don Lemon, who leaked CNNs internal polling and is a special person), but its the same thing we saw when Democrats reversed course on last summers deadly riots and the ongoing lockdowns.

And we saw it in real time in New York City, the liberal capital of the East, when on Tuesday a former New York Police Department captain who promised to tackle crime and put more cops on the streets came in first place in the mayoral election and is likely on the path to victory.

Howd he pull it off? His message, the Intelligencer reports, almost singularly emphasized fighting crime (the top issue among all Democratic voters) He campaigned on increasing the NYPDs budget and presence on the streets after many candidates initially embraced defund the police rhetoric following citywide protests against the police last summer.

Primary elections are about as trustworthy a poll as you can get, and Democrats are finally listening. But heres their quagmire: They dont have a single solution. Both the crisis at the border and the crisis in the cities are the direct results of their policies of dropping enforcement of crime in both places, and what do Biden and Harris want to do in response? Crack down on gun-store owners and fix the economies of Central America.

Lofty goals, both, but it wasnt a gun-store owner who dragged two young parents from their car and executed them in the street over the weekend or shot 52 other people in the city of Chicago alone. Unless theres been the largest single one-year increase in gun store owners illegally selling handguns since the country started keeping such records in the 20th century, it doesnt explain what The Washington Post called the largest single one-year increase in homicides since the country started keeping such records in the 20th century. Bullets dont fall from the sky, and undermining and punishing and demoralizing police isnt consequence-free.

While grueling poverty once trapped Central Americans in Central America, with increased wealth came increased access to internet, cell phones, and the money needed to pay criminal cartels to smuggle humans. While a roaring economy would undoubtedly severely curtail illegal immigration, Harriss ability to create one here or there approaches zero, despite her best efforts, leaving enforcement of Americas border laws the only immediate salve.

The Democratic Party is careening for a collision with reality, and voters are catching on. Their ability to reverse several planks of the new left and avoid the crash, however, looks near-impossible.

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The White House Know Its Police And Border Policies Are About To Crash - The Federalist