Fast Takes: DSA pins hopes on Michigan, Maine Dems distrust their voters and more

From the right: DSA Pins Hopes on MichiganThe implosion of the Platner campaign in Maine went “about as horribly as it possibly could have,” and now attention turns Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed’s run for US senate is “really thrilling DSA hearts,” snarks National Review’s Jim Geraghty.El-Sayed accuses reporters of “fixating” on his calls to “defund the police” instead of how Medicare for All is the “centerpiece of his domestic agenda.” Hah! Though Medicare for All “is the topic he has spent his life’s work on and presumably knows more about than any other issue,” El-Sayed refuses to “ever give a price tag on what his plan would cost.” He also routinely blames AIPAC for everything, including “artificial intelligence, the national debt, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.”Conservative: Maine Dems Distrust Their Voters“Under wildly different circumstances, Democrats in Maine and Republicans in South Carolina face the problem of finding a new nominee to run for the Senate this November,” reports the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.

To replace Graham Platner, Maine Democrats will convene 601 insiders “to select the new Democratic nominee” in “a pretty insular affair.” Meanwhile, South Carolina Republicans “are planning a special primary after the death of Sen.Lindsey Graham”; the only controversy is over whether to “exclude those who have already voted in the Democratic primary” on June 9.

South Carolina’s “Republican nominee will be chosen by voters”; Maine’s “Democratic nominee will be chosen by a few hundred party officials and activists.” So: “Which is the party of democracy?”Fertility watch: The Left vs..

..  My Babies“The left-leaning press is wildly suspicious about the medical intervention that allowed me to become a mother,” thunders The Free Press’ Madeleine Kearns.

“Restorative reproductive medicine,” a k a RRM, “assumes that infertility is a symptom of an u...