Convention capped Trump’s comeback, Vance is no ‘fake’ and other commentary

Analyst: Convention Capped Trump’s Comeback

“If the Republicans’ pb successful the polls holds done November, the Milwaukee Trump-fest volition beryllium remembered arsenic the doorbell thigh that heralded possibly the astir spectacular governmental comeback successful American history,” muses RealClearPolitics’ Carl M. Cannon.

“Just 2 months ago, Democrats hoped — with immoderate crushed — that Trump would beryllium successful jailhouse by now,” but successful Milwaukee, Trump delivered “a lengthy code to a Republican Party helium has thoroughly molded successful his ain image. A governmental enactment that until precocious was arrogant to champion escaped commercialized and internationalism” is “now officially and unabashedly protectionist and inward-looking astatine some the apical and bottommost of the 2024 nationalist ticket.”

Trump “re-conquering the Republican Party” turned retired “to ne'er truly beryllium successful doubt, though Trump realized it earlier anyone else.”

Iconoclast: Vance Is No ‘Fake’

Trump’s triumph successful 2016 “forced galore Americans to reexamine their ain beliefs astir authorities and society. J.D. Vance was nary exception,” explians Zaid Jilani astatine Compact.

Vance erstwhile saw mediocre whites arsenic “victims of their ain self-destructive behaviors and counterproductive mindsets”; present helium denounces “corporations for failing to unrecorded up to their responsibilities to workers, families, and communities.”

“Vance’s astir melodramatic displacement wasn’t his reassessment of Trump’s character” — aft erstwhile suggesting helium mightiness govern similar Hitler — “but his clasp of a populist governmental agenda.”

While “fellow Republicans instrumentality Vance’s populism seriously,” the near calls him a “fake.”

“But the near should besides recognize that you can’t amended economical conditions for mean Americans with conscionable 1 faction successful 1 enactment connected your side.”

Liberal: GOP’s Big Working-Class Bet

“The GOP seems to beryllium leaning into its emerging individuality arsenic a working-class party,” observes The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira.

“It’s beauteous modular present for Republicans to bash amended than Democrats among working-class (noncollege) voters.”

And “judging by this year’s campaign” — the GOP platform, for one, and veep-nominee J.D. Vance’s rhetoric — “Republicans mean to deepen their roots successful America’s moving class.”

Democrats look to deliberation “the GOP’s large stake connected the moving class” can’t “possibly wage disconnected owed to the party’s evident hypocrisy, incoherent argumentation ideas, and accepted business-oriented commitments.”

Yet polls amusement “it already is paying off.”

Trump’s entreaty to non-college-educated voters “is a world that indispensable beryllium reckoned with.”

Libertarian: Maddow’s Middle-Earth ‘Insights’

“Rachel Maddow thinks it’s very interesting,” that Sen. J.D. Vance named his “venture superior steadfast aft a magical entity from the Lord of the Rings,” smirks Reason’s Robby Soave.

She adjacent described J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved trilogy arsenic a benignant of wellspring of inspiration for far-right nomenclature, noting: “Peter Thiel, a billionaire task capitalist and protagonist of Vance, besides named 1 of his companies, Palantir, aft a LOTR item.”

But, notes Soave, “moderates besides emotion LOTR. So bash liberals, lefties and the wholly apolitical.”

Tolkien’s enactment isn’t “devoid of governmental themes”; helium was an environmentalist with “libertarian tendencies” who loathed authoritarianism.

The Lord of the Rings “is not a far-right text, contempt immoderate Maddow would person her viewers believe.”

Conservative: Iran Stokes Violence Against Jews

After the shooting of Donald Trump, “Biden’s insistence that his medication volition tolerate nary governmental unit deserves further exploration successful a antithetic context,” argues Liel Leibovitz astatine City Journal.

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines stated: “We person observed actors tied to Iran’s authorities posing arsenic activists online, seeking to promote protests, and adjacent providing fiscal enactment to protesters.”

Says Leibovitz: With agents of “an force country” present recovered “to person agitated for uprisings connected America’s campuses and successful our streets: arrests, deportations, sanctions, and different antiaircraft measures indispensable follow.”

Those Iran-funded operations “have resulted successful unit against American citizens connected American soil” — yet section officials person fixed “the perpetrators a pass” and elite institutions “excuse” and “protect the worst offenders.”

The prez “is close to telephone retired governmental violence,” but fixed “Iran’s relation successful provoking it,” the medication indispensable “do thing astir it.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board