Why voters hate Biden’s economy, Dems losing Asians: commentary

Conservative: Why Voters Hate Biden’s Economy

For all the “columnists who are absolutely befuddled that Americans rate the economy — and President Biden’s economic record — so poorly,” National Review’s Jim Geraghty explains: “Lots of Americans feel like they get bad news every time they go to the grocery store. Or when they see lots of part-time-job opportunities, but fewer options for full-time jobs with benefits. Or when they fill up their gas tank.”

Even “retirement accounts don’t seem as bright and cheery after a long bout of runaway inflation.”

On groceries, “a selection of commonly purchased items that were valued at a total of $100 in 2019” now costs costs 36.5% more.

Jobs? On last Friday’s seemingly good report, full-time workers dropped 6,000, while part-timers rose 691,000.

Multiple job holders grew to 5.2% of total employment.

Eye on ’24: Dems Losing Asians, Too

“Asian Americans have been moving towards Republicans since 2016,” reports Hilary Stockton at The Hill. “In 2020, 54 percent of Asian Americans in California and 40 percent in Nevada voted for Trump.”

In one poll, “over 40 percent of registered Asian Americans view inflation as the most important issue.” Crime, public safety and education are also “critical.”

President Biden “deplored the Supreme Court’s ruling prohibiting the use of race in college admissions” despite evidence of “Harvard’s clear record showing discrimination against Asian American applicants.”

Asian Americans feel “Democrats only care about discrimination against minorities if those minorities aren’t Asian students who are ‘too’ successful in school.”

“Inflation, crime and education” all “play more to Republican strengths” among these voters, which poses “a problem for Biden come November.”

Libertarian: Greta’s War on the Working Class

As the Dutch “are suffering one of the largest spikes in energy prices in all of Europe,” fumes Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill, “Greta [Thunberg] and her barmy eco-army” protested at The Hague on Saturday “for less government backing for energy production.”

“It was the Netherlands’ over-reliance on gas imports, including from Russia, that plunged it into this crisis”; “it responded by lifting the cap on energy production at coal-fired power plants and reversing its plans to cut back on gas production. To most folk, this will sound eminently sensible. To eco-cranks, however, it is intolerable.”

“The entire green ideology is a menace to working people. Climate-change alarmism is an unspoken class war.”

Hong Kong watch: Lai Is No Foreign Pawn

Chinese officials portray Jimmy Lai as “being in the service of dark foreign forces to undermine Hong Kong” because “they can’t abide the truth: that millions of ordinary Hong Kong Chinese” took to the streets not because of him or foreign money, but “because they wanted their freedom,” roars The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn.

The story now emerging from his conspiracy trial is “that of a businessman” who spent as much as $100 million of his own wealth to protect the “freedoms and rule of law that made Hong Kong” a world-class business capital.

“The shame,” laments one Hong Konger, is that Lai “was the only one of Hong Kong’s wealthiest business leaders to stand up for the system that made them rich.”

Media desk: AP’s Climate ‘Wrongthink’

The Associated Press now urges “journalists to ‘avoid false balance’” and suppress criticism of climate alarmism, notes The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil.

This “leftward tilt — and its attempt to force its groupthink through its style guide — creates a rather hostile climate for actual journalism.”

(Remember that “97% of scientists don’t actually believe the world is going to end because we burn fossil fuels.”)

“It may also lead skeptical Americans to dismiss climate science altogether,” as happened with COVID alarmism.

“So why does The Associated Press put its thumb on the scale?” Likely because it “has received large grants from left-wing foundations, particularly for its climate reporting.”

The big question: “How does AP aim to prevent this rot from spreading across other topics and preventing fair coverage entirely?”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board