From the right: Trump can win with character
The friendly advice that Donald Trump should focus on the economy or “focus more on the issues of this campaign” is “not enough to bring down Kamala Harris,” argues Rich Lowry of the New York Times: character It depends on which characteristics play a role when it comes to whether someone is suitable for the office of president.
Argue that “Harris is weak and a hypocrite and cares neither about the country nor the middle class.”
Shift your “shotgun attacks” to “these character traits.”
For example, it says: “She is too weak to hold public civic meetings or give in-depth interviews with the media – or any at all at the moment,” and “she is a shape-shifter and opportunist who can and will change her views almost any time it suits her politically.”
There is “plenty of room for Mr. Trump to do it his way, as he emphasizes,” and yet “make a fundamental argument that she should not be – and cannot be – president.”
Mideast Watch: No green tears over oil spill
While the “kidnapping, humanitarian aid-obstructing, cholera-exacerbating Islamists who have carried out a ‘partial and limited reinstatement of slavery’ are re-enacting the Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Red Sea,” thunders Jim Geraghty of the National Review, “there is hardly a peep from the green girls.”
A US State Department spokesman lamely called on the Houthis to “cease these actions immediately.”
Where are the people who should “develop and implement policies to deter and punish such reckless attacks”?
President Biden “has not made any substantive comments on the Houthis threat since January.”
And one of his “first actions was to remove the Iran-backed Houthis from the US list of global terrorist organizations.”
If he stays in office until January 20, “is it too much to ask that he come out every now and then and talk about these things?”
DNC topic: The Democrats’ plan to expand poverty
Although many “celebrities, union leaders and politicians” spoke at the Democratic National Convention last week, notes Allysia Finley of the Wall Street Journal, what was missing were “entrepreneurs who create jobs for the middle class.”
The Democrats “took turns to beating up ‘oligarchs’ and ‘corporate monopolists'”; when Harris took the stage, “the loot from the piñatas was scattered everywhere.”
This is “what the Democrats plan to do if they win: destroy those who create wealth so they can divide the spoils among their own people.”
They demand that “success be taxed so that the government can distribute money and grow.” “As long as we rely on laws to fight poverty or abolish privileges,” warned Henry Ford, “we will see poverty spread and privileges grow.”
That, sighs Finley, is “the joyful future that Americans can expect during a Harris presidency.”
Conservative: Democrats pushed RFK Jr. to Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s support for Donald Trump “sent shock waves throughout the Democratic establishment,” writes Earick Ward of the American Thinker.
“This was certainly not an easy decision for RFK,” but “he felt there were issues that needed to be addressed…that mattered to the Democratic electorate,” and the Democratic Party “kicked him out.”
“RFK reportedly contacted the Kamala Harris campaign a few weeks ago” and said “he would be willing to drop out of the race if he could be considered for a Cabinet post,” and he “was rebuffed.” “What was he supposed to do?”
Looking at the economy: A looming rise in inflation
With inflation still “a major problem,” warns Diana Furchtgott-Roth of The Hill, “further price increases and supply chain problems appear to be on the horizon.”
With labor contracts on the East Coast set to expire on September 30, “the International Longshoremen’s Association is threatening a strike.”
The union is demanding a 32 percent wage increase and an end to automation in the ports.
According to one expert, “a one-day strike would take five days to end,” while “a two-week strike would not end until 2025.”
This could mean “boosting inflation and paralyzing the country’s economy.”
Hmm: “Railroad and airline workers cannot simply decide to walk off the job”; the fact that dockworkers are able to do so is something “that Congress should take another look at.”
— Compiled by the editors of the Post
