The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Can’t Fix Stupid

“[‘Basket of deplorables’] was an unfortunate choice of words and bad politics, but it also got at an important truth. Just look at everything that has happened in the years since, from Charlottesville to Jan. 6. The masks have come off, and if anything, ‘deplorable’ is too kind a word for the hate and violent extremism we’ve seen from some Trump supporters.” —Hillary Clinton

For the Record

“Unless and until [Mark] Zuckerberg embraces an Elon Musk-like devotion to free speech, there is no reason to trust him or his company. He can become apolitical all he wants, but if Facebook is still suppressing the free speech of anyone to the right of Karl Marx, then it’s nothing more than virtue signaling meant to shore up some problematic business trends.” —Nate Jackson

“It is always confusing to me when someone writes to complain that the Electoral College doesn’t align with the ‘popular vote,’ as if this wasn’t the entire point of the enterprise. If the two always harmonized, we wouldn’t need it.” —David Harsanyi

“The Supreme Court is perhaps the only institution inhibiting state overreach these days, which is why Democrats have been busy delegitimizing and now want to pack the court and transform it into another malleable partisan institution.” —David Harsanyi

“Democrats want to get rid of the Electoral College so that a few giant urban areas can run the executive branch. They want to get rid of the filibuster so they can unilaterally transform the nation. When they don’t have congressional majorities, they want (their) presidents to rule by fiat. And many now want to pack the Supreme Court to make sure no one will stop them.” —David Harsanyi

“Hezbollah doesn’t exist to make friends. It exists to destroy Israel and America. It’s an Iranian asset in a strategic location meant to deter Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear program. Lebanon’s central government is either uninterested or incapable of challenging Syria and Iran. And the U.N. is worse than useless.” —Matthew Continetti

“Rather than building sandcastles with his friends in the U.N., President Biden could try applying to our besieged ally in the Middle East the same rhetorical and material support he bestows on Ukraine. But that is not the president we have. Biden’s policy of escalation management has produced expanding circles of ruin from Kiev to the Gulf of Aden.” —Matthew Continetti

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

“In 2020, roughly 82.2 million women voted compared to about 72.5 million men. Men, why aren’t you voting?” —Ashley St. Clair