Fast Takes: GOPs missing midterm agenda, watchdogs Hamas blind spot and more

Voters seem “uninterested in returning Republicans to control the House and Senate,” warns The Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel, pushing President Trump to offer goals he’s “passionate about completing” — a program “that requires a legislative majority.” This “agenda deficit” defines the “GOP’s midterm problem, as evidenced by enthusiasm numbers.” Trump needs to “roll out a set of bold final promises” centered on making America “the premier global destination for building and growing business,” explaining we can slash government “fraud and waste” and “create a modernized immigration system that gives the US the power and flexibility to fill labor needs legally.” To win, “you can’t have a campaign without an agenda.”The Committee to Protect Journalists “conducted a months-long review meant to identify and remove confirmed” Hamas militants “from its widely cited database” of alleged journalists killed in Gaza, yet “more than half the names” remaining still “have connections to terrorist groups,” fumes The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Credo.Wake up! Hamas and allied terror groups have a “well-documented practice of installing their operatives as journalists” to “take advantage of longstanding conventions to avoid killing journalists during war.” Worse, CPJ’s listings haven’t even “adhered to its own permissive definition of who qualifies as a journalist.” One smoking gun: Dozens of “names still included on CPJ’s list are terrorists who were identified as such by ‘martyr notices’ issued by their respective terror outfits.”Don’t miss “far more extreme conduct” of Hannah Gann, “the Philadelphia schoolteacher recently outed” as a fake Palestinian: She’s “part of the vast network of dedicated teacher-activists in Philadelphia public schools misusing their classrooms to encourage extreme political activism,” thunders Mika Hackner at City Journal.

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