Fast Takes: Republicans set to lose House, insane media Fauci denialism and more

With “fewer than 100 days until Election Day,” GOP “prospects for keeping control of the House of Representatives are still poor,” warns the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.Trump’s approval rating is 39.7%; “the Iran war is an enormous source of uncertainty”; and the president’s party almost always loses ground in midterms.

The only “Republican upside”: “The rise of the Democratic Socialists” lets the GOP portray Dems as “nuts” and “worse than nuts — dangerous.” As one Republican strategist puts it, “we have a lot of money, redistricting helped us, and the Dems are crazy” — but “that does not feel like enough.”“A string of court cases and administrative decisions” have often not just “accorded non-citizens equal rights with Americans,” but actually “offered them better treatment,” fumes Sam Munson at Compact.One Virginia district attorney “pledged to instruct his office to make charging and plea decisions that ‘limit or avoid immigration consequences’,” meaning “illegal immigrants would potentially face less serious charges than citizens accused of the same crimes.” Underlying this view is “a philosophical stance” that “any effort to restrict and deter immigration” justifies “all forms of radical resistance,” including “violence in the streets.” But this dedication to unlimited immigration bespeaks “an imperial” vision of a world in which “every non-US citizen currently alive is potentially American.”  NPR, CNN and other outlets still deny the extensive evidence that Dr.

Tony Fauci intentionally deceived the American public, marvels Racket News’ Matt Taibbi.Huh? “Eight days after Fauci took part in a conference call at the beginning of the pandemic” where nine out of 12 top scientists said “‘deliberate insertion’ of a key mutation” to produce the COVID-19 virus “was possible,” Fauci told the world that “the idea” it “came from a lab was a ‘c...