Liberal: Democrats’ Asian-Voter Crisis
What ✤had been Democrats’ “coming Asian voter problem has, in꧑ fact, arrived,” .
In 2022, “nationwide the Democratic advantage among Asian voters relative .” Why?𝔍 “Asians are worried about public safety” and the Dem image is of “a soft approach to containing crime.” They don’t “harbor particularly radical views on the nature of American society and how it must be remade to cleanse it of intrinsic racism and white supremacy.”
And Dems are “increasingly associated with a𝔉n approach to schooling that seems anti-meritocratic, oriented away from standardized tests, gifted and talented programs and test-in elite schools — all areas where Asian children have excelled.”
Face the facts, or Democrats “might as well resign themselves to a political stalemate where they cann♑ot beat the GOP decisively despite that party’s massive and glaring weaknesses.”
Libertarian: Making New Tobacco Criminals
“Th🌺e first state in the U.S. to ban the sale of all flavored tobacco and nicotine products,” Massachusetts in late 2019, has seen “thriving illicit markets, challenges for law enforcement, and prosecution of sellers,” all contrary to promises, .
Per a new state report, “tobacco tax revenue has fallen by ওapproximately 22.6 percent over t🥂hree years” thanks to reduced smoking and likely “smuggling of untaxed products.”
The Bay State data show that “flavor bans will lead to illicit 🍰markets, arrests, and incarceration.” States like New York eyeing similar moves “should view Massachusetts as a warning, not a role model.”
Poll watch: Asian Americans vs. Affirmative Action
A survey by AAPI Data showing that “69 percent of Asian Americans&𒁏nbsp;supposedly favor r🅠ace-based college admissions” has “gone viral” but is fundamentally misleading, .
It’s “more about the question Asian Americans were asked than the va𓆉lues they hold.”
The poll asked about programs designed to help “minorities get better access to education” — dropping a past ques🍌tion that asked about “programs designed to increase the number of Black and minority students” which got markedly less support. And that one, notes Mukherjee, “more closely reflects existing affirmative action programs” in college admissions.
In short, AAPI Data “seems more interested in pushing a particular narrative than in understanding what Asian Americans really think aꦏbout affirmative action.”
From the right: Biden’s Shell Game
President Bidꦡen’s “sudden policy adjustments” are “coming thick and fast” as he tries “to repair rips in his case for” re-electio🌳n, .
But: “It’s a shell game. The trickster Biden juggles his rhetoric so his intended dupes . . . are briefly confused about what his policy really is.” In reality, each shift “is quick, simple, and easily executed,” but “can be reversed whenever the trickster feels like it.” Thus: “His abject mismanagement drew a record 2 million-plus illegal immigrants into the United States in 2022, five times as many as in the year before he took office.”
Now, if “he cuts illegal immigration, let’s say by 25%, expect him to argue in 2024, ‘I cut record illegal immigration by 500,000 — mor꧒e than any president in history.’ Yadda, yadda!”
Conservative: DeSantis’ Real Black-History Record
Contra all those claiming Gov. Ron DeSantis wan𝄹ts no black history taught in schools, to “the newꩵ English Language Arts standards that the Florida Department of Education adopted in February 2020.
They’re called the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking,” and among the writers pushed are “Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington,ไ W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Walker and ꧑James Weldon Johnson.
In seventh grade, teachers are encouraged to assign ‘Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott’; in ಞeighth grade, Nelson Mandela’s ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ and Douglass’ “Blessings of Liberty and Education;’ and in 12th grade, the poe🃏ms of Countee Cullen.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board