Fast Takes: Trumps health reforms beat the hype, big lies from French riots and more

When “the Trump administration took reasonable and modest steps” to curb fraud and waste, “Democratic leaders characterized them as draconian cuts,” notes The Washington Post Editorial Board, which proved untrue.When it canceled 760,000 dubious Obamacare policies set up by unscrupulous brokers, progressives called it a plot “to strip Americans of their healthcare” —- yet “the sky didn’t fall,” as only 51 of the removed enrollees requested reinstatement.” Ending a temporary Medicare Part D subsidy brought claims that Trump had “doubled prescription drug costs for millions of seniors,” but premiums “will increase on average by less than a dollar.” All in all, “the administration’s efforts to reduce costs and combat fraud look promising,” proving progressives were simply dusting off “granny’s wheelchair for another attack ad.”“The mainstream media are fuming,” notes Heather Mac Donald on X, claiming National Rally head Marine Le Pen is “exploiting the French riots” by arguing they confirm everything she has “been warning about for years, especially regarding Third World immigration.

Determined to “deconstruct these far-right narratives,” prestige press mount an “elite effort at euphemism,” such as calling the violence and destruction “unrest” and “social instability.” “But the waves of hate-filled destruction crashing over France’s once great cities validate” Le Pen’s diagnosis of “France’s demographic catastrophe.” “If naming a deliberate attack on Western civilization by those who feel only resentment and envy earns one the title of far-right extremist or racist, so be it.”“What to me represents no change at all in my political or ideological outlook has, in recent years, seen me and women like me subject not only to criticism but also to death threats,” marvels JK Rowling on her website.“We oppose the current, dominant strain of trans activism, which holds that a man who de...