Fast Takes: Burying Haleys true gripe, Dems disastrous 28 agenda and other commentary

Haley Stevens kept “asking El-Sayed to dial down the campaign’s revolting, flamboyant anti-Semitism; he had blamed the Jews and Israel for everything from the price of groceries and gas to the supposed inability of American children to buy eyeglasses,” observes Commentary’s Seth Mandel.But he told her “to get lost.

And so she did” — endorsing the GOP’s Mike Rogers.Cue Democrats’ fury — “but what really made this a true day of rage was the way mainstream news outlets insisted that all this was merely about Israel policy.” She clearly “objected to the El-Sayed campaign’s overt anti-Semitism,” but The New York Times claimed it was about “U.S.

policy on Israel” and other outlets chimed in.Snarks Mandel, “The amount of effort the media puts into obscuring what it knows to be the truth is astounding.”Dems winning Congress now promises just “a period of frothy deadlock,” but National Review’s Charles C.

W.Cooke “shudders” at thought of their total victory in 2028 and the ensuing “brazen acts of constitutional vandalism” to “permanently change the key rules of the game.” The Dems “smother their designs in euphemisms,” but the party’s “more radical figures” are clear about seeking to “end the Supreme Court as a useful branch of government,” transform “the Senate into a smaller version of the House,” and admit “new states for the sole purpose of making national elections less competitive.” This “project will gut the heart of the American system of government” and lead us to the brink of a new “Civil War.”Sacramento’s certification of the California Gig Workers Union to “negotiate directly with Uber and Lyft on behalf of all rideshare drivers in the state” is part of new trend of “sectoral bargaining laws,” warns C.

Jarrett Dieterle at Reason: “Rather than requiring unions to negotiate with individual companies, these laws allow sector-wide negotiations, which could lead to on...