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Liberal: Canadian Lessons for Democrats Mark Carney led Canada’s Liberal Party to a remarkable comeback victory by “shaking up voters’ expectations of their party, standing for patriotism and national values, and promoting sensible pro-growth economics,” reports the Liberal Patriot’s John Halpin . Liberals’ “Canada Strong” ads focused on “Trump’s tariff attacks on Canada and his condescending threats to make the country America’s 51st state.” Crucially, “Carney explicitly rejected one of his party’s least popular policies on climate and energy,” the carbon tax, and “leaned heavily on notions of nation building and pro-growth economic models.
” Democrats should study why the Liberals won, not absolve themselves “of their own economic and cultural failures in defeating Trump last year.” Ukraine war: It’s Nuts for US To ‘Walk Away’ Russia aims to “drag out” Ukraine peace talks, “wait for the other side” to “walk away” and then “ramp up the war,” warns Seth G. Jones at The Wall Street Journal .
Yet it doesn’t hold all the cards: “Increased sanctions against Russia’s energy sector would likely cause significant pain.” Plus, Moscow’s troops “have died in extraordinary numbers,” and a US decision “to provide more weapons, intelligence and training to Ukraine would escalate Russia’s battlefield costs” more. But “the U.
S. has failed to wield either the economic or military cudgel,” even as Russia aids the Houthis, who’ve attacked the US Navy. Asian officials say a Russian win would embolden China and North Korea and signal US weakness.
There’s “too much at stake” for Washington “to walk away.” From the right: Working-Class Family Comeback Four decades after Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” bemoaned “the fate of small-town America and the working class in the face of deindustrialization,” observe Brad Wilcox, Grant Martsoff & Chris Bullivant at The Washington Examiner , the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs “has hit men especially hard.” “Men retreated from work then retreated from relationships.
” To return to working-class glory days, we must “reverse this trend of income and relational collapse.” The top jobs for family formation are “armed services and first responders” in the public sector and “trucking and construction” in the private sector; all offer “a good wage, job stability, and job benefits.” The Trump administration must ensure “that being ‘Born in the USA’ is a win for those in working-class jobs.
” Ed desk: Ugly View from Princeton “I want this university severely punished for its unlawful behavior,” an anonymous Princeton prof thunders to City Journal’s Christopher Rufo . “I want all the emails to come out that will make it very evident that this university was engaged in illegal discrimination” — as when “we were told that 70 percent of the faculty are white, and that the faculty composition has to change” or “ ‘You can’t shortlist this person. We can’t hire a white guy.
’ ” “Academics are cowards. They see the way the wind is blowing and either go quiet or jump on the bandwagon.” Princeton prez Christopher Eisgruber must be “subpoenaed before Congress to have to account for not only anti-Semitism, but for DEI and for the ‘systemic racism’ arguments that he’s made.
” Health beat: Pay Organ Donors To Save Lives “If people were able to pay donors for a lifesaving transplant, we might instantly eradicate kidney disease deaths,” argues Sally Satel at The Free Press , a two-time kidney recipient. The 1984 National Organ Transplant Act “made it illegal to give or receive anything of material value for an organ” to ensure the wealthy couldn’t buy kidneys from “financially desperate and uninformed donors.” Since then, “more than 100,000 Americans” have needlessly died while awaiting a transplant.
Now the new End Kidney Deaths Act “would dramatically increase kidney transplants” but guard against exploitation “by providing a $50,000 refundable tax credit, payable over five years, to any living donor who gives a kidney to the next person on the waiting list.” — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board.
