The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Fearmongering

“Depending on what happens in November … I might not be sitting here. There might not be a White House Correspondents’ Dinner or a free press.” —MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace

Shot/Chaser

“We need [Kamala Harris] to be ‘Momala’ of the country.” —talk-show host Drew Barrymore

“Kamala has no children. She displays no maternal warmth or wisdom. She is cold and awkward. Her interactions with kids have been cringeworthy. She has dedicated her career to the slaughter of babies. No communication skills. Abominable vibes. Miserable energy. She has no interest in or ability to be ‘Momala,’ and no one — no one at all — wants that.” —Allie Beth Stuckey

Re: The Left

“Today’s protests against Israel are part of a larger campaign against the nation-state itself: against national borders, sovereignty, the right of self-defense, cultural continuity and assimilation, and well-defined citizenship. Leftists long for a post-national world of administrative zones — not nations in any meaningful sense — overseen by enlightened experts whose authority doesn’t rest on the consent of any specific people, but who are ritualistically maintained in office by a well-managed fluid voting pool of identity constituencies and broken individuals.” —Daniel McCarthy

“We have a president who can’t make a moral distinction between bigots and their targets.” —David Harsanyi

“Trump’s critics are putting partisan considerations … and their hatred of Trump and his post-election conduct before everything else in their demand for the fastest possible ruling most damaging to Trump. This is a very bad impulse when asking the [Supreme] Court to create a precedent that will affect all presidents going forward. … The idea that a complicated case relying on novel use of federal statutes and involving a former president should, or could, be slammed through the courts like a case about an overdue parking ticket was always ridiculous.” —Rich Lowry

Insight

“The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.” —philosopher Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)