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Winning the war of ideas isn’t enough. Consider government-sanctioned racial discrimination. There’s a reason the Left hides behind acronyms like DEI. Judging people on their skin color, not their character, remains unpopular. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits racial discrimination in employment and education. In 2023, the Supreme Court even struck down affirmative action in higher education admissions. Both in 1996 and 2020, California—yes, California—rejected affirmative action in public university admissions. Here’s an idea that has been thoroughly defeated among the public, at the ballot box, and in the law. The war of ideas was won, yet many universities didn’t care. They simply created a workaround to produce the same result. They also allowed students to openly torment Jewish students. Many Republicans would have simply thrown up their hands and urged conservative legal groups to return to court. Not President Donald Trump. His administration told colleges to stop treating students differently based on race or lose federal funding. Many have since eliminated their DEI offices. His administration is investigating dozens of universities for violating federal laws against racial discrimination. His team has frozen federal funding to Harvard and other universities over civil rights violations. Cases against some top universities are ongoing. Columbia and Brown Universities have settled. Trump’s big, beautiful bill has new limits on graduate student loans. This is what winning looks like. And note this: Trump isn’t acting outside the law. He’s simply enforcing existing law and signing a new law. This is why so many rank-and-file Republicans passionately support him. This is worth keeping in mind amid the hubbub over Jimmy Kimmel. On his show, he implied that the assassin who murdered Charlie Kirk was part of the “MAGA gang.” Even though many liberals believe it, that isn’t true. Kimmel should be ashamed and apologize. After the remarks, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr said on a podcast, “When you see stuff like this—I mean, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.” ABC then briefly suspended Kimmel. This led to a flurry of outrage directed at Carr for supposedly violating Kimmel’s First Amendment rights. But there’s nuance here because Carr was referencing the obligations ABC has as part of its FCC license. ABC has since reinstated Kimmel. Trump slammed his return on Truth Social. He suggested it may be an illegal campaign contribution. “I think we’re going to test ABC out on this,” he wrote. “This is a test of democracy,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said about Trump’s remarks. This “is what dictatorships do. That is what autocracies do.” Yet, Schumer and other Democrats have no principled objection to using governmental power to silence and coerce their opponents in far worse ways. On Tuesday, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, sent a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. “Biden Administration officials continued to press the Company to remove non-violative user-generated content,” the letter stated. The Left yawned. Just like it did in 2021, when former President Joe Biden told social media companies they were “killing people” by not censoring users opposed to COVID-19 vaccines. Just like it did when the “Twitter files” showed the Biden White House pressuring the social media company to censor users. Just like it did when Mark Zuckerberg admitted that it happened to Facebook, too. Free speech has won the war of ideas and is losing in the real world. That won’t change if Democrats always get to hide behind the First Amendment while freely censoring their opponents. Credit to Trump and Carr for trying a strategy that could actually lead to victory. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Why Victorious Ideas Don’t Always Win appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Stratus and Nimbus are still the ones to watch.

Trump is finally releasing the files (about Amelia Earhart).

We’ve reached day two of the first government shutdown since 2019. It’s the fourth shutdown since the 2013 showdown between Barack Obama and the “Wacko Birds” in Congress.I remember asking a senior Senate staffer who championed the 2013 tactics what the plan was now that the shutdown had begun. His answer was blunt: “There is none!” It was the first shutdown in decades, and Republicans had no idea what to do next. “We’re basically the dog that caught the car,” he admitted.Surrender, it seems, remains the Democrats’ only option. The dirty little secret in DC is that shutdowns don’t offer real off-ramps once they begin.Now Democrats find themselves in the same position. And the early signs suggest they won’t have the stomach to take the pressure for long.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) didn’t have much choice. Their sizeable left flank still calls the shots in the party, despite losing the White House 11 months ago. But the polls are in, and Americans aren’t buying the Democrats’ party line that Republicans are to blame.Democrats may have grown somewhat accustomed to losing of late, but they’re not used to losing shutdown PR fights. The way they’ve told it the previous four times, the Republicans are the “terrorists” and “arsonists,” while the Democrats are the responsible adults safely guiding the ship of state.When nearly every Republican in Congress votes to keep the ship steady, Democrats find it harder to play the blame game. Even their allies in the D.C. press aren’t impressed. Punchbowl’s Tuesday newsletter immediately set out to “reiterate that such shutdowns are harmful, counter-productive, and a major detriment to the country.”The authors went farther: “The party looking to force a policy change via a shutdown rarely gets what it wants.”Some Democrats already know it. Before the House adjourned last month, only one Democrat voted to fund the government. But on Tuesday, Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D) of Nevada and Angus King (I) of Maine broke ranks and joined John Fetterman (D) of Pennsylvania in voting to keep the doors open.These senators face more moderate constituencies than shutdown champion Elizabeth Warren (D) of Massachusetts. And they aren’t alone. Others in the caucus are nervously watching the clock, waiting for cracks to widen enough so they can slip through and surrender without paying too steep a price with the party faithful.Surrender, it seems, remains the Democrats’ only option. The dirty little secret in D.C. is that shutdowns don’t offer real off-ramps once they begin. They work only as leverage. Once the bluff is called, the fight becomes a war of attrition. In 2025, the corporate left-wing press no longer has the clout to ride in and save Democrats from themselves.President Trump, for his part, holds the detonator. He could allow tens (hundreds?) of thousands of federal employees to be furloughed or laid off if their programs lack funding. Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought is gung-ho to follow through. But Trump wants a deal more than bureaucratic Armageddon.The president is willing to let Vought trim bloated and unfunded projects. Yet unless Democrats push the standoff far longer than they seem capable of, conservatives shouldn’t expect the wholesale slash-and-burn they’ve been hoping for.That leaves Senate Democrats caught between their restless base and the reality of a losing hand. Schumer needs to decide how much damage to allow Warren and her faction to inflict before pulling the plug. His personal fortunes — and his grip on power — hang in the balance.My bet? It won’t be long.Blaze News: Mass firings to begin 'in a day or two' over government shutdown, Trump official warnsBlaze News: Vance makes Jeffries a hilarious promise if Democrats end the shutdownSign up for Bedford’s newsletterSign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford’s newsletter.

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