Border desk: Biden’s Morally Obscene Crisis
“Three-plus years into the worst border crisis in American history, the men and women of the Border Patrol are facing a crisis of their own,” report Joe Nocera & Michele DeMarco at The Free Press.
They can’t “go after the ‘bad guys’ ” because they’re overwhelmed by “the sheer number of migrants” and are “feeling abandoned by the Biden administration.”
One result: A suicide rate more than double that “among all law enforcement agencies.”
Small wonder, when they see Biden’s “treatment of them” as a “betrayal.”
After all, “over 75 percent of the nearly 250,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border were released into the U.S. with nothing more than a notice to appear at some future date in immigration court.”
Pollsters: Trump’s Trials Don’t Matter
At the Hill, Douglas E. Schoen & Carly Cooperman review their polling on the Trump legal cases, which found “the ongoing trials have had virtually no impact on the former president’s standing with voters nationally.”
It’s not just that a 53% “majority is unmoved by the Trump trials,” but that half of voters believe the cases “are a form of election interference, being carried out by liberal prosecutors, the Biden administration, and the Justice Department.”
That “majorities of Americans perceive these indictments as politically motivated should be a warning sign to Democrats.”
Bottom line: “Trump’s legal woes have not had the negative impact many had predicted — and Democrats may have hoped.”
Conservative: Why Care What a Kicker Thinks?
Why, asks National Review’s Jim Geraghty of all the furor over Harrison Butker, “are so many people emotionally and intellectually invested in the theological and political beliefs of an NFL placekicker”?
Fine, “college graduates might follow his advice.” But really: “How many people make major life decisions” about marriage or kids “based upon what their commencement speaker recommends?”
“More than 214,000 people signed a petition demanding the Kansas City Chiefs cut Butker,” missing the truth that the kicker will get axed only “if he misses three chip-shot field goals in a game or if he proves unable to work with any of the five people who effectively run” the Chiefs.
It seems “we have lost the fine art of not giving a hoot about what somebody else thinks or says.”
In fact, many of the “people who insist that they value ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ ” will “refuse equity or fair treatment for those with different beliefs.”
From the right: Newsom’s Gift to Trump
“Is Gavin Newsom trying to help Donald Trump? You have to wonder from the California governor’s plan to raise gasoline prices in Nevada and Arizona before the November election,” argues the Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley.
Newsom’ pushing a Cali commission to “impose a tax on refineries’ ‘gross margins,’ ” but “California refineries supply nearly 90% of Nevada’s gasoline and half of Arizona’s.”
“Arizona and Nevada are increasingly trending in Mr. Trump’s direction as working-class Hispanics bear the brunt of the Biden administration’s policies. Many migrated from California” and “don’t want to relive the misery.”
Hmm: “Democrats who think Mr. Newsom would be an upgrade over the doddering president might think again.”
Campus watch: Reckoning for Pro-Hamas Kids
Why do anti-Israel student protesters wear masks, rather than “identify themselves,” get arrested and “hope their arrests” will “galvanize minds?” wonders Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness.
They’re “sunshine” revolutionaries, ready to shout “Global Intifada” one day and apply for “a top spot at Goldman Sachs” the next.
They “scream at Jews ‘Go back to Poland,’ ” though “almost no students were born” there.
“Poorly educated” students — many “part of the diversity/equity/identity movement” — saw Gaza as “fuel for their Marxist-themed binary of oppressed versus oppressors.”
And they expected “that in Joe Biden’s America, their lawbreaking would not be punished.”
“These infantile campuses have a rendezvous with adult accountability, both public and governmental. And they won’t like what is soon coming.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board