‘Anti-zionism’, Tim Walz’ weird CCP love: commentary

From the left: Admit What ‘Anti-Zionism’ Is

Progressives have been busily “lionizing and glossing over protesters’ actual beliefs” when it comes to anti-Israel voices at the DNC and on campus, notes New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait — and “the bill for this indulgence is coming due in Chicago.” Remember, these protestors believe things like Israelis “water their invasive species with Palestinian blood” and that because they “lack a naturalistic connection to any soil, the Jews must be rendered a permanently rootless subaltern class.” “To the extent progressives feel any discomfort with the goals or methods of protesters, they tend to rationalize them.” “The morally just response is to meet this ideology the way liberals meet other forms of hate: by calling it what it is.”

From the right: Tim Walz’ Weird CCP Love

As a Nebraska high school teacher, “Tim Walz appeared to extol life under Chinese communism,” reports the Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman. He told his students that under China’s Communist Party system “everyone is the same and everyone shares,” per a 1991 article in Nebraska’s Alliance Times-Herald. Those comments, Goodman notes, “add to concerns” about Walz’s “relationship with China, where he traveled extensively for decades and which he says he doesn’t see as an adversary.” After a “yearlong teaching fellowship” there in 1989 (soon after Tiananmen Square), “Walz started leading trips to China” for high schoolers, “with support from the Chinese government.” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer warns that “Walz could be ‘susceptible to the Party’s strategy of elite capture, which seeks to co-opt influential figures.’ ”

Econ desk: Kamala’s Opaque ‘Plan’

Despite “the unveiling of Kamala Harris’s economic plan,” you “won’t find out much about her policies,” argues Merrill Matthews at The Hill. In fact, “it would be more accurate to call her speech an ‘economic platitude.’ ” She’s “leaning into a positive message that has wider appeal, specifically because it’s light on the details.” Partly it’s that she “has no idea how to implement all the policy platitudes she’s proposing.” Worse is “that she and her party need low-information voters” because “informed voters ask too many questions and demand too many answers — answers this presidential candidate is not capable of providing.” Uh-oh: “One of the biggest threats to democracy is low-information voters.”

Republican: Harris’ Baneful Energy Policy

“Under the ‘net zero’ energy policies advanced by Kamala Harris, the Biden administration and the entire Democratic Party, families are being denied the hopeful and abundant future that comes with low-cost energy,” warns JD Vance at The Wall Street Journal. “Harris is committed to implementing the Environmental Protection Agency’s disastrous new mandates on power plants and electric vehicles,” which will throw “more than 100,000 Americans out of work while adding to electricity demand.” “With coal plants shutting down and few large natural-gas or nuclear plants being built, America’s electricity grid faces significant contraction,” though “analysts expect electricity demand to soar almost 14% over the next decade.” This will turn “millions of Americans into paupers — begging their government for help with high energy bills rather than standing on their own two feet.”

Libertarian: Dems’ Head-Spinning Logic

“Let’s take a moment to appreciate the head-spinning logic that Biden and Harris are asking voters to accept,” snarks Reason’s Eric Boehm. President Biden insists “that America’s economy is stronger than ever,” whereas Vice President Harris says the economy needs a “federal ban on price gouging” and other actions to “bring down costs.” Hmm: “Those high prices are largely the fault of government overspending (backed by heavy borrowing) during and after the pandemic.” So, “if Harris wants to put controls on something that would actually provide relief to Americans, she should aim to restrict government borrowing rather than grocery store prices.” Ha! Instead, Democrats will “keep telling us that America’s economy is stronger than ever” but that “Harris needs to be our price-setter-in-chief.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board