From the right: Some Good Dem Decisions

On a night NYC Democratic primary voters tapped some awful candidates, Midtown Manhattan ones “made a comparably good choice and picked state Assemblyman Micah Lasher,” who “wants to continue arms sales to Israel and does not agree that Israel has committed a ‘genocide,’ ” cheers National Reviews’s Jim Geraghty. And they nixed two candidates “who had no business getting serious consideration”: Trump-obsessed cable talking head George Conway just didn’t prove “that interesting.” The other was JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg, “the walking, talking embodiment of ‘Nepo Baby’ ” who expected “an electorate to hand him a congressional seat because of his family.” Face, it, Kennedy clan: “The inheritance has been spent, the memories of ‘Camelot’ are almost all forgotten, and the country has moved on.” “Good job, Democratic primary voters.”

Midterms beat: Don’t Expect a Blowout

Most pros think “the GOP will lose” the House midterm elections, but “not in an old-fashioned blowout,” explains the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. Yes, President Trump’s low job approval rating and word that 59.3% say the country is going in the wrong direction” while 63% say the economy is “very bad or fairly bad” compounds the fact that “the president’s party almost always loses House seats in midterm elections.” But Dems’ lead in the “generic ballot” is “not overwhelming,” far smaller than they when picking up 40 seats in 2018. Crucially, “the Democratic Party’s favorability rating” nets as worse than the GOP’s. Then again, for the prez and Republicans in DC, “life will still be miserable with a Democratic House, even if the margin is small.”

Conservative: Librarians Gone Wild

Take a look at session titles for the American Association of School Librarians’ Chicago convention, warns Erika Sanzi at The Hill: “Charting Queer Visibility,” “Read Trans Books,” “Queer Kidlit Joy”: All promote “an extreme worldview.” Indeed, the group has “explicitly moved away from neutrality,” dropping the word from its “Library Bill of Rights and Code of Ethics.” And the association “directly influences which books are purchased . . . and which are disappeared or ignored” in school libraries — despite their “constitutional obligation to uphold the free exchange of ideas” for students. School leaders must wake up and be a “backstop for students and parents against this unrelenting ideology and propaganda.”

Former AG: Confirm Todd Blanche

Tapped to take the permanent job, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will need the votes “of at least 50 of the 53 Republican senators,” observes former AG Bill Barr at The Wall Street Journal. Blanche “is well-qualified and will run the department as effectively as anyone,” providing “much-needed leadership and stability.” The job “demands legal acumen” combined with “practical experience, leadership and institutional savvy,” and Blanche, “a skillful and accomplished lawyer with extensive experience,” has “the necessary qualities.” Crucially, he “doesn’t shy away from giving the president straight-from-the-shoulder advice” and “pushes back on bad ideas.” No one else “has a better chance of getting through” to the prez, so “America’s interests are best served by confirming” him.

Waste watch: Winning the War on Fraud

President “Donald Trump’s ‘full-scale war on fraud’ is the kind of low-hanging fruit that populists know how to pick,” notes UnHerd’s Emily Jashinsky. His Justice Department just indicted “90 doctors, involved in fraud schemes totaling an alleged $6.5 billion” in bogus Medicare claims. Before that, in its first month, the anti-fraud task force “identified nearly $6.3 billion in government contracts believed to be tied to potentially fraudulent businesses.” Notice that “so many of the investigations are focused on false claims filed to Medicare and Medicaid” — debunking the Democrats’ lies about GOP efforts to tighten the rules for popular programs “by touting efforts which strengthen safety net programs, prioritize vulnerable American citizens, and make the federal government feel less wasteful.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board