It’s the economy, stupid, First Amendment at risk and other commentary

https://nypost.com ^ | 3/24/2024 | Post Editorial Board

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Election watch: It’s the Economy, Stupid

“According to the corporate media narrative, the economy is just swell,” scoffs Steve Cortes at American Greatness, “but regular Americans know better.” Polling for his League of American Workers “proves the point”: In Arizona, for example, former President Donald Trump leads President Biden by 4 points, mostly due to “economic disenchantment with Biden.” Voters say they were better off under Trump than Biden by a “stunning” 53%-35% margin. That mirrors results in other swing states: “Voters have many worries, from the effectively open border to increasingly unsafe streets in America. But the number one worry, consistently, involves an economy that only works well for the credentialed elites while the working-class masses suffer.”

Censorship beat: First Amendment at Risk

Lower courts slammed the Biden administration’s “vast, multi-agency campaign to police content on social-media platforms and to pressure Big Tech to suppress views it dislikes,” but several Supreme Court justices seem to buy “the twisted logic” that “it is the US government’s own speech rights — not the public’s — that are under threat,” thunders Spiked’s Sean Collins. Yes, “the government can speak its mind to the media and seek to persuade them of its opinion,” but its “actions have gone far beyond ‘sharing information,’ ‘urging action’ and ‘participating in debate.’ Indeed, the plaintiffs’ brief presents ample evidence of how the Biden administration crossed the line from persuasion to coercion of social-media companies,” including repeated “threats of legal or regulatory retribution.” And “the ideas that the administration wants to ‘protect’ us from are often the truth.”

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“Voters say they were better off under Trump than Biden by a “stunning” 53%-35% margin. “

35% of the voters are idiots.