The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Friendly Fire

“The elites of this country alienated voters everywhere because they didn’t want to hear what working- and middle-class voters were screaming for four years — focus on us and our problems, not your agenda to destroy Trump.” —Democrat strategist Chris Kofinis 

“Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party. … The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling.” —Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY)

“When over 70% percent of Americans think we are on the wrong track or headed in the wrong direction, that is not a messaging problem. That is [a] reality problem.” —Ritchie Torres

“Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face. I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” —Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA)

“The Democrats have to stop pandering to the far left. I don’t want to discriminate against anybody, but I don’t think biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports. Democrats aren’t saying that, and they should be.” —Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY)

“Democrats should be smarter on the women’s athletics thing [because] 85% of Americans oppose men transitioning after puberty and competing against women.” —MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough

Theater of the Absurd

“Well, the Democratic Party worked very hard. And they raised, you know, a substantial sum of money. We had great candidates. And so, Trump had a following, basically, generally led by whites. White males voted in big numbers. … We had a black woman, which this country has never seen before.” —Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-TX) when asked what lessons the Democrats should’ve learned

Who’s Ready for Russia Collusion 3.0?

“I talked a couple of months ago to Dan Coats, the former director of national intelligence under Trump, and I said, ‘What’s going on in this relationship between Trump and Putin?’ And Dan Coats said, ‘It’s so close, it seems like it might be blackmail.’” —journalist Bob Woodward

For the Record

“I think [Democrats] have an enormous psychological problem. The base of the party believes in things that are crazy, as seen by most Americans.” —former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

“I grew up in the old Republican Party, where we were always irrelevant, always the minority, and people always felt kind of sorry for us. I think that may be the new Democrat Party.” —Newt Gingrich

“Obama produced Trump in 2016, and Biden only served to strengthen him. Total failure of the Democratic Party.” —CNN political commentator Scott Jennings