Conservative: Eric Adams the ‘Godsend’
Many Gotham progressives view the prospect of an Eric Adams mayoralty as a “nightmare,” notes The New York Times’ Bret Stephens, but “for the rest of big-city America, not to mention the Democratic Party that usually runs it, he’s a godsend.” The reason: “Democrats are again becoming the party of urban misrule, just as they were in the 1970s,” with leaders inviting lawlessness, riots and other disorder in cities across the nation, including the Big Apple. Adams, by contrast, “believes that effective policing is the basis for justice, not an enemy of it.” If “black lives matter,” Adams says, “we should be talking about a 13-year-old kid being assassinated in the Bronx.” Say Stephens: “If Adams can govern as he campaigned, he’ll be remembered as the mayor who saved New York from walking itself off a ledge.”
Libertarian: Cuba’s Imperialism Is Its Downfall
“Cuba, that bastion of anti-imperialist Latin American dignity, turned the far larger and richer Venezuela into a colony,” gibes Reason’s Daniel Raisbeck. The “young, tech-savvy Cubans” protesting on the streets are a sure sign that the Communist regime was too “busy exploiting its Venezuelan colony” to see “discontent brewing at home.” It’s a “classic case of imperial overreach,” with “Cubans stationed in Venezuela being summoned back to the island to quash the rebellion.” Greek historian Polybius “described the cyclical nature of revolutions”: “one-man rule, oligarchy and democracy tend to succeed one another. With time, even the Cuban Revolution might see its tyrants fall.”
Foreign desk: Training Taiwan’s Troops
American legislation could make Taiwan “harder for Beijing to control,” enthuses The Wall Street Journal editorial board. The Taiwan Partnership Act, backed by Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate, encourages the US National Guard to advise and train Taiwan’s reserve force. “Calling up reserves could multiply the size of Taiwan’s active-duty military of under 200,000 by a factor of 10,” providing “additional manpower if the island’s population had to mobilize for war” — which itself could deter China. Bipartisan support for helping Taiwan develop an “organized and equipped reserve force” shows both parties recognize America “has a significant strategic interest in helping the island defend itself.”
Pandemic journal: Biden’s Vax Blame Game
President Biden “and his administration are endeavoring to shift blame to” Facebook “for the predictable effects of their own demagoguery,” seethes Andrew C. McCarthy at The Hill. “The propagandist-in-chief inveighed against” the social-media giant last week “for ‘killing people’ by spreading misinformation” about COVID vaccines. It’s a “shameful” claim coming from a man whose vice president “took the opportunity” at her “highest-profile appearance of the campaign,” the VP debate, “to explain that she would not get a vaccine pushed by” President Donald Trump. “The administration is upset because, after his campaign discredited the vaccine effort, Biden overpromised what he could deliver once he took charge of it,” missing his July 4 target. Biden officials, not Facebook, “cavalierly undermined the government’s vaccine effort for what they perceived to be a fleeting political advantage.”
From the right: When ‘Misinformation’ Is Fact
“Facebook is killing people, misinformation is rampant, and the only people who can save us from ourselves are the all-wise executives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” snarks The Federalist’s Kylee Zempel. “That’s the message emanating from the White House,” which is “effectively deputizing Facebook to be an extension of the federal government’s communications office.” The “same political stripe that ridiculously cried ‘fascism’ for four years under Donald Trump is now taking concrete steps to suppress political opposition, one of the hallmarks of true fascism.” Big Tech’s Democrat-supported censorship of The Post’s Hunter Biden reporting and the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis prove that “today’s ‘misinformation’ is tomorrow’s undeniable fact.” Team Biden’s collusion with Big Tech and Big Media is “a desperate attempt by the ruling class to save their own rear ends from information that threatens their ideological goals.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board