Libertarian: Dems’ Obsession With Winning ‘Woke’ Votes

Why, asks Robby Soave at Reason, are the Democratic candidates trying so hard to win over racially hypersensitive voters? Wednesday night’s debate “felt like it was taking place inside the classroom of a critical-theory instructor,” as multiple candidates “confessed their various privileges,” from Gov. Jay Inslee “admitting that he had no idea what it felt like to be a black teenager” to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand “vowing to berate suburban white women for being insufficiently woke.” Reality check: Surveys show that “more than 80 percent of people despise political correctness,” while “the number of Americans who think people should routinely check their privilege constitute a tiny minority.”

Foreign desk: Crouching Tiger, Nuclear-Armed Dragon

Beijing is “aggressively” expanding its “nuclear warfighting forces” to exert more power over Asia and beyond, reports Bill Gertz at The Washington Free Beacon, quoting to US Strategic Command officials. The ­effort includes building more, and more diverse, nuclear weapons and ­delivery systems and broadening China’s “nuclear-weapons production capabilities” so it can boost output in the future as it chooses, says Stratcom Vice Adm. David Kriete. The command’s director of intelligence, Rear Adm. Michael Brooke, calls the “pace of change” to China’s nuke program “breathtaking.” And that, notes Gertz, follows Army Lt. Gen. Robert Ashely’s warning in May that the build-up represents “the most rapid expansion and diversification of [China’s] nuclear arsenal” ever.

2020 watch: How AOC Drove the Debate

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was not in the Motor City for this week’s Democratic primary debates — but she was there in spirit,” notes Adam Shaw of Fox News. “A year after the former bartender shot to prominence with an upset primary win,” he notes, “many of her hard-left campaign planks are now gospel among top 2020 hopefuls.” Sen. Kamala Harris thundered, “We must have and adopt a Green New Deal.” And Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren “adamantly defended” Medicare for All, which “has become a virtual litmus test.” Sen. Cory Booker “backs a federal jobs guarantee, another plank that AOC’s campaign endorsed.” And Ocasio-Cortez herself weighed in, via Twitter, “apparently not pleased with those trying to stake more moderate positions.”

From the right: Why the DCCC’s Purge of Whites Matters

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s purge this week of top white staffers is “more shocking” than people realize, a Washington Examiner editorial argues. Either some Democrats “are making a racial ­issue out of a patronage question,” or they are “genuinely angry that half the [staffers] at the DCCC are white.” Either way, “this is not a party fit to govern.” Indeed, “if an organization is actually willing to fire you from your job just because you’re white, do you really want to be involved with it?” Yes, voting trends suggest Democrats can’t win in most states without “90 percent of the black vote and vast majorities” of other minority voting blocs. But, asks the Examiner, “is that a realistic strategy in the long run?”

Conservative: Sanity Lost the Dem Debate

At this week’s Democratic debates, Roger Kimball at Spectator USA sighs, “an occasional bubble of sanity rose to the surface and expired in a satisfying eructation.” The problem: “Such little pops were emitted by the debaters of whom no one had heard of before . . . and surely no one will hear of again.” And the loudest voices — the likes of Sens. Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren — issued “socialist nostrums,” the essence of which was “let’s give lots of stuff away!” Meanwhile, the CNN moderators added their “usual even-handedness,” opening “several questions with such gambits as ‘the president’s racist rhetoric’ or ‘after the president’s racist tweets.’ At least we knew where we stood.” Not that the two evenings were without their consolations: “I liked Bill de Blasio’s frankness: ‘We will tax the hell out of the wealthy.’ ” And the “entertainment also featured a small mercy. Cory Booker didn’t break into Spanish in order to pander to the Hispanic vote. That was nice.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

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