Get America Back to Normal, What’s Next for Colleges and Other Comments

Iconoclasts: Make America Normal Again

“Under the folds of each of our two political parties, a hidden faction is struggling to emerge,” argues Francis Buckley of RealClearPolitics, eager to “get America back to normal.”

The Democratic Party’s “survival” depends on these voters, but it must “become the party of the people it has rejected” and “compete for the votes of the people with whom it has lost touch” – Catholics, union members, Parents with small children.

Democrats must “abandon the conceit that their opponents are either bigots or stupid.” The hubris that “nearly destroyed the Democratic Party” is strong and “is evident in the Trump Republican Party.”

MANA Democrats are necessary “because the alternative of a one-party state cannot be good for the country.”

Ed Desk: Trump Challenge of Universities

“U.S. college campuses have been humbled by Trump’s victory,” observe Ilya Shapiro and Noam Josse in City Journal, while “students’ dismay at Trump’s victory contrasts with their jubilant, headline-grabbing anti-Israel activism.”

In fact, “the 2024 election was a profound rebuke to the wakefulness that universities have inspired over the last decade.”

Campuses are “the last bastion of support for ideas like racial preferences and language codes.”

If “the illiberal takeover of higher education continues apace,” then “these institutions will become increasingly irrelevant in American public life.” (Yes: “Rushing about decolonization and gender theory is not an issue for ordinary Americans.”) Trump is on a mission to “help stop the ongoing radicalization of America’s colleges and universities.”

Climate strike: “Immoral” shell game by rich nations

Wealthy nations have pledged to “spend $300 billion annually on climate compensation,” but they are unlikely to pay any new Cash, predicts Björn Lomborg of the Wall Street Journal.

They will only “do what they have done before: loot development funds.” But “climate aid is the worst way to improve quality of life or prevent deaths.” It will be “dwarfed by the good” that is one such money could make a difference if it were used for “vaccines for children or improving crops.”

“When people need jobs and food, it is immoral to give them solar panels instead.”

President-elect Donald Trump should “focus development spending on smart investments.”

Otherwise, “poorer nations will suffer from a kind of climate colonialism” as Western elites “divert money from the fight against poverty” to build their “climate delusions.”

From right: Countermeasures against a Hegseth smear

Compact’s Sohrab Ahmari debunks a New Yorker article that cites anonymous sources claiming that Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth has been “forced to resign as president of the advocacy group Concerned Veterans for America” ​​because of “serious allegations” against him be accused of misconduct.

In interviews, Ahmari explains: “Two former senior CVA executives have denied the ‘whistleblower’ allegations.”

Former CVA senior adviser Sean Parnell described the claims as “complete fabrications”; Another vet said the “false allegations” were “made by a group of disgruntled employees who were fired by Pete.”

He left after disagreeing with donors over policy, they say, and Ahmari argues that Hegseth’s confirmation hearings should focus on “the evolution of his thinking on American security” rather than “decades-old personnel smears that be vigorously contested by his fellow veterans.”

Conservative: Jealous judge against Tesla shareholders

Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick in January invalidated Tesla’s 2018 deal to pay Elon Musk $50 billion “if Tesla does amazingly well,” finding that the company’s board “did not “sufficiently independent” and “concluded that the package was not ‘fair,'” recalls National Review’s Andrew Stuttaford. “Our apparatchik class” – that is, “the members of the judiciary” – “doesn’t think much of the business class” and “may dislike its idiosyncratic entrepreneurs even more.” They also don’t like how these outsiders are paid.”

And now the “high-handed” judge has rejected the statement “as irrelevant.” two Shareholder votes affirmed the bonus, although it is “an expression of what the company’s owners wanted for their company.”

No wonder that far fewer US companies dare to stay on the stock exchange: it “opens companies to the impositions and plunder of an apparatchik class whose interests may be at odds with those of shareholders.”

– Compiled by the Post editorial team