Fast Takes: Reality confronts anti-Zionists, Dems damning affordability record and other commentary

“Every facet of the ‘genocide’ accusation against Israel has fallen apart,”  thunders Commentary’s Seth Mandel, including “claims of genocide, deliberate starvation/famine, mass targeting of journalists, and others.”It was all “a global propaganda scheme on a scale we’ve probably never seen before,” as the “villainous portrayal of Israel during the war was exactly backwards.” Beware: “Acclimating to reality will be disorienting” for the “Hamasnik cult” as it awakens, for “even the purveyors of the Big Lie are finding” facts “difficult to avoid.” The word “genocide” usefully “stopped you from having to defend your worldview.” Now that “reality is steadily intruding” on mythology, “adherents of the anti-Israel propaganda cult” will let us know if “we all can in fact inhabit reality together.”Democrats are out to “capitalize on voter frustration with inflation by running on ‘affordability,’” note The Wall Street Journal’s editors, yet inflation rose an “average 5% a year during the Biden years,” significantly higher than in either Trump term.Indeed, even “as inflation heated up in 2021, Democrats urged the central bank not to raise interest rates.” And now Dems “want to raise the $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage to $15 or higher,” though “businesses pass on higher wage costs to consumers to the extent they can.” Recall, too, that Democrats said Obamacare “would reduce healthcare costs”; instead, “premiums for employer plans have roughly doubled since 2010.”Hoping life will be “more affordable under their policies is indulging hope over expensive experience.” Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

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