From left: The progressive moment is ready

“The progressive moment is truly over,” argues Liberal Patriot Ruy Teixeira — because many of his ideas “were pretty terrible, and most voters outside the progressive left precinct were never very interested in them.”

For example, “loosing restrictions on illegal immigration was a terrible idea and voters hate it.”

As well as “promoting lax enforcement and tolerance of social disorder”, “insisting that everyone should view all issues through the lens of identity politics” and “telling people that fossil fuels are bad and they need to stop burning them more use”.

“Voters clearly aren’t buying what progressives are selling” and “the backlash against these ideas is strong.”

This is why Kamala Harris is “furiously backpedaling from all these positions.”

Foreign Office: The best aid solution for Gaza

Israel’s critics “complain about Israel’s humanitarian aid policy, while Hamas hoards incoming aid and starves its own people.” smoke Seth Mandel’s Commentary.

Israel cannot provide the aid itself because any secure system “would look very much like an IDF occupation.”

The UN team in Gaza cannot handle “the most basic customs rules, including requiring ID from anyone entering the war zone and an accurate list of the contents of deliveries.”

However, critics erupted over “reports that Israel is considering hiring private security firms to provide aid.”

The truth is that “the most realistic solution is to let Israel already win the war and defeat Hamas, whose existence is the barrier to feeding and supplying the Palestinian residents of Gaza.”

Libertarian: “Militias v. FEMA” phantom threat.

Reports of “armed militia trucks” “chasing FEMA workers” “turned out to be somewhat less serious.” reports Reason’s Matthew Petti: A single man has been arrested for allegedly making a threatening comment online.

“The Washington Post reported on the alleged threat” October 13; He later updated his story, “but other news outlets have already started running the story,” including a New Republic article blaming “Trump’s criticism of FEMA for alleged militia threat.”

“Every time America suffers a natural disaster, it seems, there is great anxiety about social collapse and mass violence. And the media often runs with the most fantastical version.”

But “these rumors themselves can cause serious damage,” causing panic and delays in relief.

See elections: Dems In the usual way shout “fascist”

Democrats labeled Republicans “fascists” for decades, notes Christopher Tremoglie of the Washington Examiner.

In 1964, Gov. Pat Brown (D-Calif.) said Barry Goldwater’s acceptance speech “reeked of fascism. All we needed to hear was Heil Hitler.”

Hubert Humphrey compared Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign to the London Blitz, Tremoglie notes, and in 1980, “Rep. William Clay (D-MO) stated that (Ronald) Reagan wanted to “replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted literally from Mein Kampf.”

George W. “Bush was regularly called every dirty name in the book, from racist to Nazi to fascist to war criminal,” as the California Democratic Party chairman compared 2012 candidate Paul Ryan to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. “Does any of this sound familiar?”

From right: Kam’s energy dishonesty

“One of the reasons voters feel they don’t know what Kamala Harris would do if elected is because she’s not honest about what she believes.” thundered the editors of The Wall Street Journal.

For example, on energy policy: “Americans don’t know her position because she won’t state it clearly,” but they can “infer she wants to shut down fossil fuel production” based on her policy engagements.

Her director of climate engagement, Camila Thorndike, “was a legislative aide to Bernie Sanders and policy director for the left-wing Rewiring America”; she wants to ‘electrify everything’, has ‘called the fossil fuel industry a ‘death cult’ and its executives ‘dictators”.

People like her will “run a Harris administration.” They know Harris’ real energy agenda “won’t do well in swing states, especially Pennsylvania, where fracking has helped revive coal towns.”

Voters may say “Harris is not being honest and that her vague rhetoric is a disguise.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board