Make America normal again, whats next for colleges and other commentary

Iconoclast: Make America Normal Again“Beneath the folds of each of our two political parties, a hidden party struggles to emerge,” argues Francis Buckley at RealClearPolitics, eager to “Make America Normal Again.” The Democratic Party’s “continued existence depends upon” these voters, but it must “become the party of the people it cast out” and “compete for the votes of people with whom they lost touch” — Catholics, union workers, parents with young children.Dems will have to “abandon the conceit that their opponents are either bigots or stupid.” The hubris that “nearly destroyed the Democratic Party” is strong and “can be seen in the Trump GOP.” MANA Democrats are needed “because the alternative of a one-party state cannot be good for the country.”Ed desk: Colleges’ Trump Challenge“U.S.

college campuses have been humbled” by the Trump win, observe Ilya Shapiro & Noam Josse at City Journal, as “students’ dismay at Trump’s victory contrasts with their jubilant, headline-grabbing anti-Israel activism.” Indeed, “the 2024 election was a profound rebuke of the wokeness that universities have unleashed in the last decade.” Campuses are “the last bastion of support for ideas such as racial preferences and speech codes.” If “the illiberal takeover of higher education proceeds apace,” then “these institutions will become increasingly irrelevant in American public life.” (Yes: “Ravings about decolonization and gender theory are nonstarters for ordinary Americans.”) Trump has a mandate “to help halt the ongoing radicalization of America’s colleges and universities.”Climate beat: Rich Nations’ ‘Immoral’ Shell GameWealthy nations have pledged to “spend $300 billion annually on climate reparations,” but they’re not likely to shell out any new cash, predicts Bjorn Lomborg at The Wall Street Journal.They’ll only “do what they’ve done before: raid development funds.” Yet “clim...