A huge change, barely noticed, Dems must kill lawfare mindset and other commentary

Eye on DC: A Huge Change, Barely Noticed“People have barely noticed” that Donald Trump “repealed affirmative action by executive order,” marvels Christopher Caldwell at The Free Press, though it’s “the most significant policy change of this century,” since affirmative action has been “the longest and costliest moral crusade in American history.” Had the “affirmative-action scheme been devised for anything but desegregation, it might have been considered sinister and totalitarian,” inflicting as it does “doses of remedial racism” on “20 percent of the American workforce.” That was something “the public could not tolerate and neither government nor business could avow.A climate of dishonesty was the result.” “Ten presidents managed to insulate affirmative action from public accountability.

Then it became obvious to the public that changing anything would require dismantling everything.Journalist: Dems Must Kill Lawfare MindsetDemocrats don’t need “literal murder of the lawyers who dominate the party” to return to power, muses Alexander Nazaryan at UnHerd, but must drop “the lawfare that has blinded Democrats to what politics is all about.” A “lawyerly frame of mind” led Democrats to pursue Donald Trump using “various avenues of lawfare.” “After Trump pardoned all of the J6 rioters,” progressive Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner vowed to bring his own charges, forgetting that he was elected to fight the “crime and drug overdoses continuing to plague the city.” Forget “politics by lawfare” — voters want “a Democrat who knows how to throw a punch on behalf of working people.”Education desk: Culture Wars Cost Billions“The culture war is costing school districts billions,” warns Reason’s Emma Camp.A report from the UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access surveyed “67 school districts nationwide” about outlays on “issues such as critical race theory, book challenges, gender-related...