Fast Takes: Some good Dem decisions, librarians gone wild and more

On a night NYC Democratic primary voters tapped some awful candidates, Midtown Manhattan ones “made a comparably good choice and picked state Assemblyman Micah Lasher,” who “wants to continue arms sales to Israel and does not agree that Israel has committed a ‘genocide,’ ” cheers National Reviews’s Jim Geraghty.And they nixed two candidates “who had no business getting serious consideration”: Trump-obsessed cable talking head George Conway just didn’t prove “that interesting.” The other was JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg, “the walking, talking embodiment of ‘Nepo Baby’ ” who expected “an electorate to hand him a congressional seat because of his family.” Face, it, Kennedy clan: “The inheritance has been spent, the memories of ‘Camelot’ are almost all forgotten, and the country has moved on.” “Good job, Democratic primary voters.”Most pros think “the GOP will lose” the House midterm elections, but “not in an old-fashioned blowout,” explains the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.

Yes, President Trump’s low job approval rating and word that 59.3% say the country is going in the wrong direction” while 63% say the economy is “very bad or fairly bad” compounds the fact that “the president’s party almost always loses House seats in midterm elections.” But Dems’ lead in the “generic ballot” is “not overwhelming,” far smaller than they when picking up 40 seats in 2018.Crucially, “the Democratic Party’s favorability rating” nets as worse than the GOP’s.

Then again, for the prez and Republicans in DC, “life will still be miserable with a Democratic House, even if the margin is small.”Take a look at session titles for the American Association of School Librarians’ Chicago convention, warns Erika Sanzi at The Hill: “Charting Queer Visibility,” “Read Trans Books,” “Queer Kidlit Joy”: All promote “an extreme worldview.” Indeed, the group has “explicitly moved away...