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Mehek Cooke Warns Ideological Decisions Are Hurting American Consumers

Mehek Cooke, senior national security and legal analyst at The Daily Signal, warned that the shutdown of Spirit Airlines exposes a broader failure by the Biden administration and Democratic leaders to think through the real-world consequences of ideologically driven policy decisions, which she says are now directly hurting American consumers.

Appearing on NewsNation over the weekend, Cooke said the collapse of Spirit Airlines was not inevitable, but the predictable result of the Biden administration blocking a merger with JetBlue that could have allowed the struggling airline to survive.

“They didn’t think forward,” Cooke said. “At the end of the day, this was an ideological win.”

Democrats have sought to shift blame away from the Biden administration for the airline’s closure, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., arguing that spiking fuel prices and a court ruling against the Spirit–JetBlue merger are responsible. But Cooke rejected that claim outright.

I've warned for months that a @JetBlue–@SpiritAirlines merger would have led to........

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