Still Not Tired of Winning

Another week, another Trump rout of the left

I’m getting tired of making Vince McMahon memes to summarize the latest White House initiatives:

• About that first item—offering $1,000 for illegal immigrants to self-deport. That merely makes the U.S. a copycat of Sweden, which is offering up to $34,000 for migrants to self-deport:

Sweden, a nation long known for its open-arms policy toward migrants, plans to drastically increase its cash offer — by 35 times, to more than $34,000 — to those who agree to go home. . .

The step is one part of a larger shift in policy and rhetoric for Sweden, long known as a refuge for those fleeing war-torn and strife-ridden countries. It is now among a growing number of European nations embracing a harder stance on immigration amid a rise in right-wing and populist parties. . .

16,000 immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia voluntarily left Sweden without the grant last year.

Of course, if this fails, progressive, social democratic Sweden is thinking of changing its constitution so it can strip citizenship from migrants as a prelude to deporting them:

Sweden is preparing to change the constitution to be able to take away the passports of people who obtained citizenship by fraudulent means, or who are a threat to the state, the government said on Wednesday. . .

"The background is that Sweden is dealing with three parallel and very serious threats to our internal security," Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer told a news conference. "Violent extremism, state actors acting in a hostile manner towards Sweden, as well as systemic and organized crime."

• Speaking of visas, the Trump Administration has revoked the student visas of 37 students at Johns Hopkins University. Sounds like a good start, but there’s probably a long way to go yet, as 15% of JHU’s entering class are foreign students.

• The Supreme Court has reversed a lower court stay against the Trump Administration’s plan to de-trans the military, which is probably a good sign for the forthcoming decision in the Skrmetti case.

Meanwhile, The Economist (!!!) says the Trump Administration has science on its side with its determination to bring an end to so-called “gender affirming care” for minors:

“The evidence for benefit of paediatric medical transition is very uncertain, while the evidence for harm is less uncertain.” When medical interventions pose unnecessary, disproportionate risks of harm, “healthcare providers should refuse to offer them even when they are preferred, requested, or demanded by patients.” Claims that distressed children who do not transition face greater risk of suicide “are not supported by the evidence”.

The report includes a review of 17 previous systematic reviews on the subject, many conducted in Europe, to evaluate the evidence for benefits and harms of pmt. It finds that the overall quality of evidence on the effects of intervention is “very low”. What is more, the report says the risks of pmt include sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density, adverse cognitive impacts, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications and regret.

In Britain, the left-of-centre Labour government has committed to implementing the Cass Review in full. In America, by contrast, many well-meaning people on the left have dug themselves into a position that is not supported by research. [Emphasis added.]

• If you want to get a sense of how badly Trump has scrambled the usual political categories, guess which leftist causes suddenly like Trump? PETA, and the climatistas. I’m not making this up.

First, PETA:

As President Trump arrives at the University of Alabama to give a commencement speech on Thursday, two PETA “dinosaurs” will greet him with a pair of important messages: “Thank you, President Trump for Cutting Animal Experiments!” and “President Trump: $ave Million$” by shuttering the seven federally funded National Primate Research Centers.

And then this from the climatistas (in the Wall Street Journal no less):

I recently attended a closed-door session with senior supply-chain and sustainability executives. The mood was visibly tense. Conversations quickly turned to rising tariffs, deglobalization and mounting geopolitical risk. But something surprising emerged from the anxiety: the possibility that President Trump’s trade war might accelerate environmental progress. . . Mr. Trump’s trade policies might do more for the planet than a thousand environmental, social and governance reports.

Cue another Vince McMahon meme progression!