Behind Trumps Israel backing, leftist rot ruins universities and other commentary

“There are several plain reasons why President Trump has been vocally supportive of Israel’s mission in Iran so far,” explains Commentary’s Seth Mandel.The prez “loves a winner” and “so far, Trump likes what he sees and doesn’t want to stop seeing it.”He “said he would stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon” and “the IDF has gotten results.” “If all he has to do is sit back and watch it happen, why wouldn’t he?”He also likes prefers flexibility, and: “At this point, Trump hasn’t overcommitted to anything and hasn’t ceded control of his own ability to adjust as he sees fit.”Backing Operation Rising Lion lets him be a winner and fulfill a key campaign promise.“The radical-left [campus] monopoly is a threat to America’s democracy, institutions and national well-being,” warns John Ellis in The Wall Street Journal.Treating “criminals as victims” along with “pronoun madness, defunding the police and so on” all began and metastasized at universities, “the national headquarters of the radical left.”Team Trump is spot-on in aiming to “end wokeness by targeting DEI and critical race theory in universities and the federal government.”But more’s needed: “Ending woke foolishness and returning universities to their former brilliance is possible only if the political monopoly is broken up.”With that, the country “would take care of DEI, critical race theory and even antisemitism, because these are all created by the monopoly.” 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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