This week: one year after the American defeat in Afghanistan, the end for Liz Cheney, transgenderism is coming for our children, airlines bet on the future, the Islamist attack on Rushdie, India at seventy-five, America is running out of munitions, and Cartel Country. Let’s go —
1) “One year after the surrender, Americans remain deeply unsettled about the end of the war … A majority of Americans (53%) agreed that the fall of Afghanistan was indeed a ‘generational setback’ for the United States. Although conservatives were more likely to agree at 64% versus 47% of moderates and 45% of liberals, for no group did a majority disagree with the statement.”
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/08/afghanistan-one-year-later-what-does-america-really-think/
2) “[M]any conservatives now want young people–particularly young men–to forego college altogether. While rooted in sound motives, this advice just encourages young men to fall even further behind in life.”
https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/09/stop-telling-conservative-teens-to-not-go-to-college/
3) “Trump-world organized and mobilized like I’ve never seen before to ensure Cheney’s defeat. Everyone correctly understood that, symbolically speaking, no midterm race was more important for the future of the America First movement than this one.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/16/trump-world-campaign-liz-cheney-wyoming-00052299
4) “Historical analogies are often lazy, and I cringe when I hear analysts liken the war in Ukraine and the West’s uncertain response to World War II and Munich. Yet as I watch the hesitant Western military effort—with the U.S., Britain, Poland and the Baltic states in the lead, Germany and France lagging, and the rest of Europe somewhere in between—I hear at least a rhyme.”
5) “The blitz underscores the increasing focus on the right on gender issues, with some conservatives looking to make it a centerpiece of political campaigns. Transgender women have been allowed to compete in women’s categories in the Olympics since 2003 and the NCAA since 2010. In 2020, Idaho became the first state to enact transgender athlete restrictions. Since then, more than half a dozen states, including Mississippi, Montana, Florida, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Alabama, have barred transgender girls and women from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/16/conservative-nonprofit-midterms-00052081
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