Trump-bashing commentators were delighted when their nemesis was stricken with Covid-19. Writing in Spiked, Brendan O’Neill thinks many in the media hold a pre-modern view of disease, imbuing the virus with political and moral authority. Some pundits, suggests O’Neill, write as if Covid-19 has deliberately targeted the doubter-in-chief in a bid for “Karmic Justice.”
Reversing Industrial Suicide
Following the loss of 5 million U.S. industrial jobs from 2000 through 2017, Joel Kotkin in Spiked writes of the growing consensus – alone among Western countries, and despite the U.S. left’s hatred of Donald Trump – to revive America’s industries by “reshoring” manufacturing. Today, writes Kotkin, even some of the famously globalist “tech bros” are opening new facilities back home to manufacture tangible, advanced products. One sign of success: China is measurably bleeding in its manufacturing output.
