The Hamas death cult, Trump gains amid harsh coverage and other commentary

“Not since the execution of Benito Mussolini” has the world been granted such a view of “the death of a fascist” as when footage showed Yahya Sinwar’s last breaths, observes Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill.“In truth, Hamas aspires not to ‘free Palestine’ but to subjugate it” to the “dominion of Islamist diktat.” Palestinians are not “individuals deserving of life” but “martyrs.”Fact is, Hamas is “a death cult”; it’s not statehood but death that is its “loftiest” goal.Meanwhile, the terror group’s “hijacking of the Palestine issue is more than matched” by the “woke hijacking of it by the lost elites of the West,” who use it to express their “angst with the West.”Palestinians are “physical fodder” for Hamas’ “holy warmongering” and “moral fodder for the virtue-signalling of the West’s elites.”Despite “unrelentingly negative coverage,” marvels the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, “the public views [Donald] Trump more favorably than it has since he entered politics.”“Less than three weeks before Election Day, Trump’s unfavorable rating exceeds his favorable rating by just 7 points.”He’s now “more popular at this point in the campaign than he was at this point in the 2020 campaign or the 2016 campaign.”Meanwhile, Kamala Harris’ “momentum” has “stalled.” So the favorability “trend for Trump is up, and the trend for Harris is down.”It’s an “extraordinary” development, given the “relentlessly hostile media” environment Trump has faced.During his McDonald’s photo-op, Donald Trump “missed a bigger opportunity to highlight how Kamala Harris’s agenda endangers such jobs and franchise restaurants,” flags The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board.“Start with the Biden National Labor Relations Board’s joint-employer rule,” which holds “corporate parents responsible for the labor practices of franchisees.”This “would reduce franchisee autonomy and ...