Democrats road not taken, Columbias academic freedom hypocrites and other commentary

“Democrats currently are at a fork in the road to their political future and how that future turns out depends on which path they choose,” muses The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira.They can take either “the party of restoration” path or the less traveled “party of change” one.Polling shows “voters want change — big change”; the “party’s brand is in wretched shape and views of Democratic governance are negative.”Dems “will have to work really hard to convince voters, especially working-class voters, that they embody change.”Democrats “don’t realize that they are at a fork in the road,” yet if they keep on the nothing-but-anti-Trump path it “will make them the party of restoration in a change era — and ensure that the political breakthrough they are seeking will continue to elude them.”Critics of President Trump’s “enforcement of civil-rights laws” at universities gripe that a crackdown on pro-Hamas protesters will destroy academic freedom, notes Commentary’s Seth Mandel.Yet it’s the “anti-Zionists” who’ve been “erasing academic freedom,” and punishing them “will help restore it.”The “tentifada mobs” made that point clearly “when they stormed Butler Library and forced nearly a thousand students to stop studying” for finals.Even groups that usually defend the goons said protesters went too far.Yet if academic-freedom groups had led the fight “to restore the academic freedom of the Jewish students under siege” from “campus Hamasniks,” then perhaps now “they wouldn’t be fighting to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to Harvard and Columbia and the rest.”  Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

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