Fast Takes: Dems new strategy? Hate Jews, Trump police are on the case and more

“Asked if burning a Jewish woman to death for her Jewish activism was anti-Semitic,” Melat Kiros “was unconvinced,” recalls Commentary’s Seth Mandel.Yet Kiros’ polling kept rising after that, and last week she “ousted veteran Democratic Rep.

Diana DeGette” in a primary.Her “victory followed that of Darializa Avila Chevalier, who attended a rally on October 8, 2023, that celebrated the Hamas rape and murder spree the previous day” — behavior that’s “unambiguously antisemitic.” Like Kiros, Chevalier “won because of antisemitism.

Without it, the political world would never know she existed.” It’s helped other progressives, too.Surely Dems “are uncomfortable with the fact that antisemitism has become a powerful currency” among their ranks, right? Yet Jew-hate seems to have become their go-to “electoral strategy.”Health bosses Robert F.

Kennedy Jr.and Dr.

Mehmet Oz just revealed that “more than 1 million people enrolled in Obamacare plans lack Social Security numbers” — “a glaring warning sign for fraud,” fumes the Boston Herald Editorial Board.The Justice Department also announced “charges against 455 defendants, including 90 doctors” tied to $6.5 billion worth of health-care schemes.

“Taxpayers assume the money they send to Washington each year goes to programs and people who legitimately need it.” But apparently no one “was watching the till.” “How many have gotten away” with fraud? Fortunately, the Trump folks aim to stop it: “If you’re a fraudster,” warns Oz, “here’s our advice”: “Run, because we are going to find you.” A new report just found the Trump administration continuing “to exercise a welcome and historic regulatory restraint,” cheers The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman.The report, by Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews, notes that the Federal Register is “on track to land at fewer than 3,000 rules at year-end” — “which has happened only...