Fast Takes: A key test for blue-state govs, DSA is going to sink our party and other commentary

With kids now back to “the daily school grind,” USA Today’s Ingrid Jacques is blasting blue-state governors for not opting in to the new federal school-choice tax-credit program.The govs’ opposition “has nothing to do with what’s best for kids”; they’re just “afraid to tick off the teachers unions that bankroll their campaigns.” So far, 31 states have opted in and three governors declined, leaving the rest of the states with Democratic governors “stuck between angering unions and angering parents.” Michigan Gov.

Gretchen Whitmer is under “heavy pressure from teachers’ unions” to “stay out.” By contrast, Colorado Gov.Jared Polis admits “he’d be ‘crazy not to’ opt in.” It’s time Dems like Whitmer prove they “truly care about kids more than special interests.”“If Democrats are going to earn the confidence of Americans this November and beyond, the answer will not be found in the Democratic Socialists of America’s platform,” warns Rep.

Tom Suozzi at the Free Press.“It calls for abolishing immigration enforcement, police, and prisons”; replacing the Senate and independent executive and judicial branches with a single “unicameral legislature”; and state ownership of all “food, education, energy, medical, and transportation sectors.” The nation envisioned by the DSA is not one “most Americans would want to live in.” Democrats “will lose huge numbers of votes if they believe our party accepts or embraces the DSA worldview.” Unless Democrats “speak out against the DSA and its platform,” voters may decide “the party is too radical to be trusted.”Many prominent tech investors “want the immigration debate to be strictly polar because it is the only way their traitorous ideas might seem reasonable,” thunders Anduril’s Palmer Luckey on X.

Employment laws should and do “advantage American citizens,” who “should not have to compete on an even playing field with billions of people” f...