From the right: DSA Pins Hopes on Michigan

The implosion of the Platner campaign in Maine went “about as horribly as it possibly could have,” and now attention turns Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed’s run for US senate is “really thrilling DSA hearts,” snarks National Review’s Jim Geraghty. El-Sayed accuses reporters of “fixating” on his calls to “defund the police” instead of how Medicare for All is the “centerpiece of his domestic agenda.” Hah! Though Medicare for All “is the topic he has spent his life’s work on and presumably knows more about than any other issue,” El-Sayed refuses to “ever give a price tag on what his plan would cost.” He also routinely blames AIPAC for everything, including “artificial intelligence, the national debt, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.”

Conservative: Maine Dems Distrust Their Voters

“Under wildly different circumstances, Democrats in Maine and Republicans in South Carolina face the problem of finding a new nominee to run for the Senate this November,” reports the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. To replace Graham Platner, Maine Democrats will convene 601 insiders “to select the new Democratic nominee” in “a pretty insular affair.” Meanwhile, South Carolina Republicans “are planning a special primary after the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham”; the only controversy is over whether to “exclude those who have already voted in the Democratic primary” on June 9. South Carolina’s “Republican nominee will be chosen by voters”; Maine’s “Democratic nominee will be chosen by a few hundred party officials and activists.” So: “Which is the party of democracy?”

Fertility watch: The Left vs. . . .  My Babies

“The left-leaning press is wildly suspicious about the medical intervention that allowed me to become a mother,” thunders The Free Press’ Madeleine Kearns. “Restorative reproductive medicine,” a k a RRM, “assumes that infertility is a symptom of an underlying condition” that must be “diagnosed and treated” to “restore the patient’s health.” The left treats this “natural procreative technology” with “wild suspicion,” seeing it as a “backdoor way to further limit reproductive rights” because it “was pioneered by a devoutly Catholic gynecologist” and is “championed in MAHA circles.” But support “from right-leaning groups doesn’t mean it’s a bad treatment” — and she has a 1-year-old to prove it, plus a baby sibling now on the way.

Music beat: Stop the EU’s Royalties Grab

The European Union is ready to take nearly $300 million from American artists, and “Congress is the only body on earth that can stop it,” warns Gene Simmons at The Wall Street Journal. Because US broadcast stations don’t pay performers and labels for recordings played on the radio, making billions off of uncompensated artists, the European Commission is looking to end such royalty payments in the EU. Instead, the bipartisan American Music Fairness Act would ensure that Big Radio pays “performance royalties while also protecting small local broadcasters” — and also make “Europe’s proposal null and void.” But the House and Senate Judiciary committees have yet to send it to the floor. With Europe “threatening to take away money that artists have earned, it’s time for Congress to stand up on behalf of American artists.” 

Energy desk: Hochul Bans ‘the Future’

New York “just became the first state” to “ban the future,” thanks to Gov. Hochul’s one-year data-center moratorium, sighs Josh Wolfe at The Free Press, simply because the “political winds” shifted and she’s facing reelection. Yet “every durable gain in living standards” has come from “technological advances,” “AI is the next chapter” — and data centers are essential. Hochul’s ban is “worse than a mistake,” because “if you want the little guy to compete with the giants, you don’t ration electricity”; you “flood the zone with it.” These centers also create enormous demand for electricians and plumbers, driving “wages skyward.” Yes, electricity prices have risen, but the answer is “not less demand but more supply.” Instead, we get “elections over electricity and vibes over volts.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board