Trump vs. the racists, an Obama-esque Iran play and other commentary

Conservative: Trump vs. nan Racists

“The governmental Right has travel to judge that if location must beryllium a civil-rights regime, it should beryllium 1 of its ain making,” observes City Journal’s Christopher F. Rufo.

“The first section of conflict is higher education,” wherever Trump has shattered nan “illusion” that Ivy League leaders are “heirs to nan civil-rights movement.” No: They are “active practitioners of group discrimination.”

And Trump’s “argument is straightforward”: “Racial favoritism is wrong” nary matter nan victim, and “any institution that continues to discriminate based connected title is ineligible for national support.”

“The position of this statement person now changed. The president has ensured that nan civil-rights authorities will nary longer beryllium a one-way lever.”

“The important point for nan Trump management is not to blink.”

Foreign desk: An Obama-esque Iran Play

“President Donald Trump is already increasing impatient pinch nan advancement of nan Iran atomic negotiations that his main envoy, Steve Witkoff, started only connected Saturday,” notes The Free Press’ Eli Lake.

But “the truth that Trump did not opportunity that Iran cannot person a atomic program, which is what he insisted connected erstwhile he scuttled Obama’s atomic woody pinch Iran, is simply a reddish flag.”

Yet “Obama ne'er had this magnitude of leverage complete Iran. Last year, Israel destroyed nan regime’s strategical aerial defense systems” and wrecked its “two strongest proxies: Hezbollah and Hamas. Iran’s system is crippled,” pinch ostentation supra 30%.

So it’s “baffling” Trump & Co. “would awesome that they are unfastened to a woody that allows an unpopular authorities to support its atomic accumulation capability.”

Left Coast watch: SF Turns Page connected Crime

“In January, crime successful San Francisco deed a 23-year low,” cheers nan Washington Examiner’s Zachary Faria.

Why? The metropolis now has a “real prosecutor,” Brooke Jenkins, who — dissimilar predecessor Chesa Boudin — “believes crime is bad” and “criminals should spell to jail.”

Boudin focused connected “making judge criminals served arsenic small jailhouse clip arsenic possible” and fighting “mass incarceration.”

He was motivated by nan truth that his “terrorist parents were jailed for years” for their domiciled successful nan 1981 Brink’s robbery.

Now “San Francisco is backmost connected way successful position of crime.” It “can enactment that measurement arsenic agelong arsenic residents retrieve nan lessons of caller years.”

From nan right: Vance’s Hope for Europe

In an question and reply pinch UnHerd’s Sohrab Ahmari, Vice President JD Vance argues it’s “not bully for Europe to beryllium nan imperishable information vassal of nan United States.”

Vance believes America tin still beryllium a friend to Europe, “provided European leaders are prepared to presume a much independent domiciled connected nan world stage, and to beryllium much responsive to their ain voters, particularly erstwhile it comes to nan mobility of immigration.”

Europe must besides reside security, Vance says: “Europe’s full information infrastructure, for my full life, has been subsidised by nan United States of America.”

As Ahmari puts it, nan veep “would for illustration to spot a beardown and independent Europe precisely because it could past enactment arsenic a amended cheque against nan foreign-policy missteps of nan Americans.”

Libertarian: The Rise of Political Violence

The arson onslaught connected Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is “only portion of nan activity of governmental unit sweeping complete nan country,” warns Reason’s J.D. Tuccille, from nan assassination attempts connected Donald Trump to “the execution of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson by — allegedly — a man who has since go a cult figure,” to “arson against Tesla cars and dealers.”

“Americans — particularly those connected nan governmental near — look progressively unfastened to” ideologically motivated violence.

“Political scientists person based on for years that nan correct is much prone to unit than nan left.”

That “always seemed a dubious claim,” but “certainly has not been true” since nan 2024 election.

And “the group who clasp violence” are reinforcing “similar attitudes successful others who stock their ideological beliefs.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board