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From the left: Russiagate Never Ended
βFor those who think Russiagate is ancient history,βΒ warns Racketβs Matt Taibbi, βwelcome to its second chapter, about Biden-era surveillance.β
Trump adviser Michael Caputo had βbeen monitored by the FBIβ since 2023, after he began working for Team Trump.
In 2017, Caputo was βname-checkedβ by FBI Director James Comey in a House hearing and accused of βbeing too close to Russia.β
In 2023, when Caputo joined Trumpβs βsecond re-election campaign,β aiming to design βfederal government reform policy,β the US Attorney for DC then βissued a classified subpoena to Googleβ demanding access to Caputoβs emails and other data.
Caputo βworries that elements of the FBIβ are still in place, βusing spy tools far too easy to access, with too little oversight.β
From theΒ right: Dems in the Wilderness
βThings have never been this bad for the party of hope and change,βΒ snarks Joseph Curl at The Washington Times.Β
βMillions of voters are abandoning the party, approval ratings have hit a 30-year low and fundraising is in the dumper,β as βmajor Democratic donors have withheld contributions amid uncertainty about the partyβs direction.β
Though some Democrats βare pushing for moderation,β others βcontinue to advocate for far-left positions.β
βThe center-left think tank Third Way has one simple suggestion: Lose the woke,β but during a recent summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee, Democrats instead βdoubled down on the woke and then made a hard-left turn.β
The party βjust might spend the next 20 years in the wilderness, and it has only itself to blame.β
Economist: ItβsΒ DebtΒ That Saps Fedβs Independence
βConcerns about the Federal Reserveβs independence have grown following repeated attacks by President Donald Trump, including this weekβs decision to fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook based on questionable allegations,βΒ notes Veronique de Rugy at The American Spectator.
But the debate βis too narrowly focused on the presidentβs political pressure, ignoring a growing danger in our systemβ: the national debt β and Congressβ tax-and-spend policies, which create it.
βPressure on the Fed will continueβ no matter whoβs president, βthanks to the fiscal trajectory that was locked in years ago, and Congressβ refusal to do anything about it.β
Itβs not whether Fed boss Jerome Powell, or his successor, βwill resist Trumpβs demands,β but whether βCongress will behave in a way that allows the Fed to do its job.β
Libertarian: Lisa Cookβs Pro-Censoring Past
As Trump tries to fire Fed board member Lisa Cook, itβs worth revisiting 2020, when βCook was involved in the effort to oust Harald Uhlig, then editor of the Journal of Political Economy, for crimes against wokeness,βΒ flags Reasonβs Robby Soave.
Uhlig βpolitely but firmly criticized the Black Lives Matter movementβ for pushing to defund the police and was accused of once saying βsomething negative about Martin Luther King Jr.β
Cook called for Uhligβs axing, posting that βthat βfree speech has its limits.’β
Itβs βcrazyβ that a sitting member of the board βcalled on somebody to lose their job for such a trivial reason,β but the fact that most people would now recognize that this shows βthe tides of wokeness actually have receded.β
Victim advocate: Trump Bail Order WelcomeΒ
βItβs hard to explain what it feels like to bury someone you lovedβ who died unnecessarily,Β observesΒ Jennifer Harrison at The Spectator.
While families of victims of violent crime have gone βthrough the worst nightmare imaginable,β politiciansΒ have congratulated themselves βforΒ βsocial justiceβΒ reforms that only created more victims.β
Democrats rammed through βbail reform, stripping judges of discretion and unleashing chaos,β and bore with littleΒ regard for or βmention of the victims whose blood had been spilled.β
Money has βflowed into programs designed to support criminals.β
Trumpβs executive order on cashless bailΒ βis a long-overdue acknowledgment that public safety must come first,β though βthe least our system can do is to offer a semblance of fairness and balanceβ to theΒ families of the victims.Β
β Compiled by The Post Editorial Board