Liberal: The Left’s Immigration Idiocy

Ruy Teixeira from The Liberal Patriot observes that while the left excels at securing electoral victories, they face significant hurdles when it comes to effective governance.

A key issue is that “the left and their party, the Democrats,” have become increasingly ineffective at delivering public services efficiently.

A major oversight has been their failure to address the realities of immigration over the past few decades. Implementing mass immigration policies without voter support inevitably triggers backlash, as the adverse impacts of open borders are tangible and not merely the fears of xenophobic individuals.

Ultimately, left-leaning leaders must wholeheartedly embrace principles of effective governance and societal stability, or they risk losing credibility with voters.

Success in national elections over the coming decades will depend on adopting a pragmatic approach to immigration.

Media watch: ABC Won by Losing the Oscars

“For Disney, losing the Oscars to YouTube” actually “kinda feels like a blessing,” argues Vulture’s Josef Adalian. 

The Mouse House reportedly spent above “$100 million every year on a show which this year reached just shy of 20 million viewers,” when 10 million people watched “the season finale of Dancing With the Stars,” which “costs a lot less” to produce.

The Oscars “still pull in lots of premium advertisers,” but the ad haul “is nowhere near what it used to be decades ago.”

For ABC, not dishing out “so much money for a show whose ratings have fallen far below what they were when Disney made its last Oscars deal feels like a good thing in the aggregate for the network.”

Culture critic: Brown’s Hapless Shooting Response 

The “utterly abominable” response to last week’s shooting “was a tale of confusion and missteps from start to finish, an institutional incompetence so great that an army of online social media accounts tried to do the work of the police themselves — and, for the most part, failed spectacularly,” marvels The Free Press’ Jillian Lederman.

“The FBI and Providence police” ID’d one suspect, only to clear him; then “X erupted with the theory” that it was a particular Brown senior, which also proved “wrong.”

In the end, “it took a homeless man to crack” the case, as “the sluggish pace of information from the university and law enforcement bred confusion and mistrust” and then “misinformation.”

Oy: “Plummeting trust in our institutions is a worrying and corrosive force” but “sometimes a justifiable one. This appears to be one of those times.”

Conservative: Norman Podhoretz’s Vibrant Seriousness 

“The great Norman Podhoretz,” who died Tuesday at the age of 95, “was larger than this moment,” not least because he believed arguing about art, politics and “fundamental moral commitments was serious,” eulogizes Yuval Levin at National Review.

Everyone these days “runs away from the seriousness and importance of living by the truth. Everything in the public arena now is said in a kind of half jest, as if we are afraid to think deeply and speak plainly of things that aren’t a joke,” but this “is an expression of ignorance and terror.”

Though neither “humorless,” nor “dispassionate and rational about it all,” “Podhoretz was not afraid to take culture and politics seriously.”

At root, “he was intensely emotionally engaged in the battles he waged, because he believed those battles mattered.”

From the right: Fulton County ’Fesses to 2020 Elex Breach

Fulton County, Ga., just “admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified but were nonetheless still included in the final results,” reports The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman.

Poll workers had failed to sign off on vote tabulation “tapes” for them to count, as law required. A state probe also found Fulton officials failed to verify “their zero tapes.”

Election-integrity activist David Cross is asking the State Election Board “to ‘impose sanctions of Fulton County, have them publicly acknowledge their violations, and . . . decertify Fulton County’s 2020 advanced voting results.”

That won’t change the past but will “place an indelible and permanent asterisk on the record.”  

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board