Dems suicidal groupthink, Israel haters anti-aid insanity and other commentary

Why, asks the Liberal Patriot’s John Halpin, did Democrats’ leaders ignore years of warnings about the party’s “setbacks and travails with working-class voters of all races” and how its “economic and cultural agenda was falling flat with Americans across the country”? Maybe it was a “groupthink” that fed a “denial about the party’s decline with black voters, Latinos, young people, and the working class”— all too often “taken for granted as bedrock supporters of the party.” Groupthink brings “the suppression of dissenting voices and rejection of information that doesn’t fit the group’s consensus,” and Dems foolishly “told people to yell louder about how good the economy was doing” and how Trump was a threat “to reproductive choice and democracy.” If the party won’t “confront” its “deficiencies, it will never improve.”You’d “think the activist class would be pleased” at news that Israel, with American support, has launched the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation “to get foodstuffs and other essentials to the benighted people of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip,” marvels Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill, but “they hate this initiative.Why? In “their twisted minds, so addled by Israelophobia, everything Israel does is evil.” The United Nations claims GHF “will ‘militarise aid delivery,’” while the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen “insisted Israel should be working with the UN, not the US.” In fact, “telling the suffering folk of the Gaza Strip not to accept the Jewish State’s help,” despite their great need, is “a kind of psychosis.”After 60 years of “devastating cultural losses,” Christians in America are making a comeback — thanks to the “unexpected religiosity of Generation Z,” cheers John Hirschauer at City Journal.

With the “once-rebellious” left now dominating “schools, workplaces and popular media,” religious faith “has become a form of rebellion against a culture that rejects t...