What Real Change Looks Like

It is hard to overestimate the significant policy reversals under way right now

• I guess Iran won’t be celebrating TACO Tuesday any time soon. The latest leftist taunt of Trump is that “Trump Always Chickens Out.” Maybe on tariffs, but not, it seems, on Iran, which may have paid too high a price for the view that Trump was so totally war-averse that he would not let Israel attack.

Can anyone, under any imaginable world, conceive of this ever coming from Obama or Biden:

As I say, real change.

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• It is hard to overstate the significance of the Supreme Court’s recent 9 - 0 opinion in Ames v. Ohio Dept. of Youth Services, partly because of the author of the opinion: Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson. Keep in mind that Brown-Jackson was appointed explicitly as a “diversity hire” for the Court (Biden promised he would name a black woman, ruling out 95 percent of the American population from consideration for the appointment), and as such she was expected to be a stout defender of the Diversity-Industrial Complex.

The ruling opened the door on reverse-discrimination lawsuits, which had faced a higher evidentiary bar—entirely the creation of the “civili rights community” that sought to make such claims impossible to win in court, in contradiction of the clear language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII of that act put it plainly that non-discrimination protections attach to individuals, not specially protected racial classes. But the “civil rights community” has always sought to pervert civil rights into a racial spoils system—a back door means of redistribution of wealth (and power).

Mary Frances Berry, a long-time fixture on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights back in the 1970s and 1980s, gave away this new orthodoxy with a candid comment in 1984: "Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them."

Justice Jackson last week said, “Actually, they do apply to everyone—even white men.”

One more nail in the coffin of the pernicious DEI regime. In other words, no more of this:

• While the tent is slowly collapsing on the long-running climate change circus, one big item should be noted. Nuclear power is making a comeback. It still faces numerous difficulties, especially high costs, but maybe the cost will come down with enough investment and innovation (and getting excessive government regulation out of the way—a major caveat).

But one major hurdle fell this week: The World Bank, which has prohibited financing for nuclear energy for nearly 50 years, has relented at last (overcoming the last major objector—Germany):

And it’s not just the World Bank.

This headline points to the deeper reason:

Wind and solar “not reliable”?? Say it ain’t so! (Actually, relax: the climatistas will say it ain’t so. Just wait.)

• Everyone knows that one of Trump’s rapid achievements was closing down the border, which, every Certified Smart Person told us while Biden was supposedly in office, couldn’t be done without some kind of “comprehensive” immigration reform legislation. (File “comprehensive” away in the lexicon as “an excuse for even bigger government.”) But let’s have yet another look as just how irresponsible the Biden Administration was, and never let Democrats forget it:

This astounding irresponsibility may be one reason for this (from a CNN poll!):

And guess who has shifted the most:

• Chaser—you find new forms of TDS suffering everywhere: