Top 10 editorials of 2024

10. The Biden cover-up is fast unraveling: For years, the Democratic Party and its media allies tried to hide President Joe Biden’s mental decline, and up until the first presidential debate this June, it largely got away with it. But now that Biden is leaving office, the truth has come out about how early he accelerated down his long glide path into near senility. This December editorial notes recent reporting showing that Democratic congressional leaders were worried about Biden’s failing abilities as far back as August 2021. Some of us noted them earlier than that.

9. Huge loss for DEI in federal court: Progressive “woke” ideology had just as tough a year in court as it did at the ballot box. In this January editorial, we celebrated a lawsuit brought by former professor Zack De Piero against Pennsylvania State University successfully showing that its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies created a “race-based hostile work environment” that led to his exit from the school.

8. The NFL must learn there is only one national anthem: Written after the Super Bowl in February, this editorial skewered the NFL’s decision to divide the nation by singing two different national anthems, one for black people and one for everyone else. “To sing the ‘black national anthem’ suggests that black people are separatist and want to have their own nation,” Clark Atlanta University professor Timothy Askew is quoted as saying. “I think it is important that African Americans nationally understand that we should be moving towards racial cohesiveness,” but the idea of a “black national anthem” does the opposite.

7. What Trump’s astonishing comeback means: The political story of the year, probably of the decade, is Trump’s ascension from the depths of exile after the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, to his triumphant victory on election night. What fueled Trump’s comeback was his continued ability to recognize that an overwhelming majority of people don’t believe the nation’s elites have their best interests at heart. Voters want a government run for the citizens of this country, not for an elite few, not for foreigners, and not for ideologies unconnected to the needs and concerns of the majority. Trump understood that better than any other candidate, and that is why he won.

6. The Fauci cover-up is falling apart: Since the COVID lockdowns first began, former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci has tried desperately to conceal his role in facilitating gain-of-function research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. His cover-up efforts took a huge hit in May when House Republicans released emails from his adviser, Dr. David Morens, showing deliberate and premeditated moves to hide their conspiracy from public view. “I learned from our NIH FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA but before the search starts so I think we’re all safe,” Morens wrote in one email. “Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail.” Oops.

5. Harris has no intention of following the law: After helping force Biden out of the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris faced the challenge of trying to distance herself from the many hard-left positions she took during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, including her position that crossing the border illegally should be decriminalized. One way she attempted to dodge this question was by asserting that she would “follow the law” if elected president. The problem with this as an evasion is first that leadership requires shaping the law and second that when it comes to immigration, the entire Biden agenda revolved around ignoring the law, particularly by catching and releasing millions of illegal border crossers into the country. Harris had no criticism of this policy and had every intention of continuing it if elected.

4. Why Democrats are so afraid of McDonald’s: The picture of Trump pumping his fist after he was shot in Pennsylvania is an iconic political image, but the video of Trump working the fry station and serving supporters at the drive-thru window of a McDonald’s, also in Pennsylvania, was a defining moment of the 2024 election. Trump does not pretend to be the same as ordinary Americans, which is what many political candidates do, but instead demonstrates that he is with them. He has an authenticity and connection with average people that most politicians do not have.

3. Yes, Democrats spent FEMA money on illegal immigrants: A common theme throughout the 2024 campaign was the Biden-Harris administration prioritizing illegal immigrants and foreign interests over American citizens. Did the Federal Emergency Management Agency use disaster aid to house and feed illegal immigrants? No. But did the Biden administration spend over $1 billion through FEMA programs on illegal immigrants? Absolutely, yes, it did. There is no reason for FEMA to spend so much money on an illegal immigrant crisis created by the Biden administration.

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2. The lie Kamala Harris can’t escape: The only reason Harris became the Democratic nominee was that Biden no longer had the mental capacity to do the job. But Harris could not admit this obvious fact because it would expose her complicity in the big lie at the heart of the Biden presidency. This one fact made her an inherently inauthentic candidate and perhaps doomed her to defeat all by itself.

1. Supreme Court exposes Biden’s selective prosecution of political opponents: Trump won reelection for many reasons, but one of them was the Democratic Party’s transparently political use of the justice system to attack Republicans. In April, the Supreme Court heard Fischer v. United States, a case challenging the Biden Justice Department’s unprecedented use of the Sarbanes-Oxley financial recordkeeping law to prosecute Jan. 6 protesters. The justices eviscerated the Biden administration’s inconsistent and hypocritical use of the law, ruling for the defendants months later.