From the left: Trudeau’s Ceausescu Moment
Recalling the last days of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, raging from a balcony at mocking crowds, TK News’ Matt Taibbi explains: “Even in the face of the gravest danger, a certain kind of ruler will never be able to see the last salvo coming, if doing so requires any self-examination.” And “effete pseudo-intellectual” Justin Trudeau is becoming the ultimate example, having denounced protesting truckers as a “small fringe minority” — which, Taibbi notes, led to “people across the country lining the streets to cheer truckers while self-identifying as the ‘small fringe minority,’ ” and the PM fleeing his own capital. It’s been the same “refusal to admit — not even to us, but to themselves — the numerical truth of what they’re dealing with,” from “Brexit to the election of Donald Trump.”
Conservative: It’s the Left Pushing ‘Jim Crow’
“The ‘Jim Crow’ label is being thrown out a lot these days by those on the left, including Joe Biden,” sighs Hans A. Von Spakovsky at The Federalist. “Yet if that label comes close to fitting anyone today, it’s the left. They are the ones who have implemented a discriminatory racial-spoils system in government and academic institutions throughout the country.” From Biden’s decision to consider only a black woman for the Supreme Court, to “the Food and Drug Administration’s new guidelines telling states they can prioritize delivery of limited COVID-19 medical treatments on the basis of race,” the honest question is “who is really closer to imposing ‘Jim Crow 2.0?’ ” Clearly, Biden and his associates “need only look in the mirror.”
From the right: Biden’s Big-Labor Bias
President Biden vowed to be “the most pro-union president” ever, and now he’s out to prove it — with a new pro-union agenda that includes discouraging “federal agencies from issuing contracts and grants to employers that don’t show ‘strong labor standards,’ ” roar The Wall Street Journal’s editors. In practice, that could, perhaps illegally, “let the government discriminate against a company” just for, say, fighting efforts to organize its workforce. It’s a “backdoor way of rewarding Big Labor after pro-union legislation faltered in Congress.” Biden might have power to implement parts of this agenda, but “voters, and perhaps the courts, should draw the line at bias in government funding. Shutting non-union companies out of grants and contracts would reward Democrats’ labor allies at the expense of taxpayers.”
Foreign desk: Why US Must Stop Putin
“If the United States allows Russia to invade and overthrow a European democracy, the consequences of our inaction would reverberate across the globe,” warns Marc Thiessen at The Washington Post. China, North Korea and Iran are all “watching,” and the “United States’ credibility would lie in tatters — as would the credibility of NATO,” which was founded “to deter Russian aggression in Europe.” Failure to stand up to Russia on Ukraine would mean the “last remaining autocracies are emboldened,” and “when our adversaries believe we are weak, they are more likely to test our resolve — and more likely to miscalculate.”
Pandemic watch: Joe’s Letting China Slide
“The US should have a major stake in unraveling how the COVID-19 virus originated,” contends Brahma Chellaney at The Hill. “Knowing the origins of this virus has become imperative to forestall the fourth coronavirus pandemic of the 21st Century after SARS, MERS and COVID-19.” But “isn’t it odd that the US government is no longer seeking to get to the bottom of how the virus first emerged,” and that it’s “relieving pressure on China to come clean on the virus’s origins?” In fact, “President Biden’s administration is effectively letting that communist behemoth off the hook despite the costliest government cover-up perhaps of all time.” By “covering up the truth on how the virus emerged,” Biden and China disrespect “the memory of the more than 5.7 million people who have died thus far.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
