The recess delusion, inside the Gen-X break for Trump and other commentary

National Review’s Andrew McCarthy dumps on talk of an “outrageous recess-appointment scheme” to let President Trump “install any unconfirmable nominees, such as Matt Gaetz.” First problem: The scheme requires the House or Senate to vote to adjourn, and not enough Republicans in either chamber will go along.More important, Hamilton’s Federalist No.76 cites the Senate’s role in confirmations to “prevent the appointment of unfit characters” who wouldn’t serve “the public interest,” while Justice Antonin Scalia warned “that a scheme against the Constitution’s advice-and-consent role is an attack on liberty.”Fact is, recess appointments are an 18th century anachronism; advances in “communications and travel technology” mean the Senate “is never more than a few hours from being able to convene.”“One of the biggest headlines to come out of the recent election is that Gen X — hardly nationalist or populist — broke for Trump,” notes The Free Press’ Peter Savodnik.Witness 1980s sitcom “Family Ties” star Justine Bateman, whose anti-woke tweets caused a firestorm.Bateman “hated the rise of the progressive mob” after 2020.

But the “progressive scolds” seem to be losing to “the anti-Democrat vibe.Anti-scold, anti-pronouns, anti-‘woke army.’ ”Gen X (and many others) are “done with being told how to think” and with “the travesties of the past four or eight or 10 years, or whenever you mark the beginning of the Great Awokening: the cancel culture, the pronoun fetish, the war on supposed ‘disinformation,’ and all the rest of it.”Exit polls reveal “the overarching reason behind Donald Trump’s victory,” observe Douglas E.

Schoen & Carly Cooperman at The Hill: Harris and fellow Dems “doubled down on progressive social issues while largely neglecting the economy.”They assumed “2024 would resemble 2022,” when abortion “drowned out other concerns,” boosting their candidates.Big mistake...