KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Donald Trump Had a Better Week Than Joe Biden Did. “The plan, no doubt, was to have Joe Biden safely tucked away from the spotlight in a modified basement strategy, hiding behind the news of Trump being in court and finally having the walls close in on him. The lawfare abuse was intended to distract from the fact that Joe Biden is the worst president in United States history.”

PITHY:

JOSH BARRO: Stop Letting Histrionic Children Drive Our Politics. “I cannot believe this emotionally incontinent young person and his friends are driving a national news cycle. Perhaps I am just especially used to people saying nasty things to me online,3 but I can’t even believe they were able to drive a shift to virtual classes at Columbia. I think these protests could have been 90% less disruptive if the protesters’ detractors had reacted with less fear and more disdain, working harder to ignore these people as they preen about their “liberated zones,” which aren’t even very large. These protesters are the sort of people who are terrified of bananas and banana vapor, and some of them aren’t even lying when they say the reason they wear masks outside is that they’re afraid of COVID. Letting them scare you away gives them too much credit; brushing them off is a sign of maturity and should be encouraged.”

Alinsky’s Rule 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

ICYMI: SHE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:

Related: Normal Kids Get F*cked: Elite universities went to war against fraternities and fun while indulging Hamas-admiring collectives, and the students have noticed.

And you know what looks prophetic? Anthony Bradley’s book from last year, Heroic Fraternities: How College Men Can Save Universities and America.

ALL PART OF THE PLAN FOR AMERICA: Salena Zito: Steel plant falls in West Virginia, but no one hears a sound. “The question is why? The answer is simple: They have no political power. The plant is in West Virginia, which has a small population, with no major political figure nor any major industrial figure to lobby for them. This is what happens when your lives are expendable to the rich and powerful.”

JOE BIDEN, RESTORING AMERICA’S STRENGTH ABROAD: Russian troops enter base housing US military in Niger, US official says. “The U.S. and its allies have been forced to move troops out of a number of African countries following coups that brought to power groups eager to distance themselves from Western governments. In addition to the impending departure from Niger, U.S. troops have also left Chad in recent days, while French forces have been kicked out of Mali and Burkina Faso.”

LAWFARE WORKS BOTH WAYS: Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reports on the filing of a lawsuit by victims of Hamas’ October 7 Massacre in Israel against two of the radical Pro-Palestine “student” groups fomenting chaos on U.S. campuses.

“The suit marks the first time terror victims are taking aim at campus anti-Israel groups for their alleged role in bolstering Hamas propaganda on campus and driving a series of increasingly violent protests that have endangered Jewish college students across the country,” according to Kredo.

Every contributed dollar these radical groups get from George Soros that is diverted to legal defense is one less dollar to pay for the agitators, equipment, printing, transportation, etc. etc. required to stage the kind of coordinated madness seen on dozens of campuses for the past two weeks.