Too Little, Too Late

“‘We’re sorry. We made a mistake.’ — Rahm Emanuel to me just now on what Democrats should say to parents when it comes to the years of school closures due to Covid.” —Chris Cillizza

For the Record

“As a share of GDP, Trump’s tariffs are slated to constitute the single largest peacetime tax hike in history.” —Tiana Lowe Doescher

Political Futures

“Just remember, tariffs are good and tariffs are popular and if the GOP faces massive defeats next year it will be a globalist/corporate/progressive conspiracy to stop the tariffs, not a rejection by the voters who love the beautiful tariffs.” —Erick Erickson

On the Flip Side…

“President Trump is a businessman; he’s a negotiator. The result of that has been and will continue to be improvements for the American people. We are in the midst of a negotiation, and he is fighting every day to make the cost-of-living conditions better for Americans.” —Energy Secretary Chris Wright

Trump/Musk Derangement Syndrome

“What is [the Trump-hating Left’s] message on the economy, inflation, the borders and whether biological men should compete in sports against women? Simple: Trump, and his supporters, are ‘Nazis.’” —Larry Elder

“Musk’s nemeses are disingenuous in their professed opposition to Nazis. BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen have escaped their wrath. But all three profited from Jewish slave labor during the Third Reich.” —Byron York

Re: The Left

“My Democrat colleagues would prefer that we ask, ‘Who needs to pay more in taxes?’ The American people want us to ask, ‘What the hell happened to the money?’” —Sen. John Kennedy

“A female fencer was disqualified from a tournament in Maryland after she took a knee and refused to compete against a transgender-identifying male opponent. We need to remind ourselves that we don’t actually care about women’s sports. The issue is justice.” —Michael Knowles

Wise Words

“Neither our minds nor our societies are supposed to be open. If your mind is always open, your brains are going to fall out.” —Michael Knowles

Re: Biden’s Border Invasion

“We have gone from record-high illegal immigration under Biden/Harris to record-low illegal immigration under Trump/Vance. That means in his first 71 days, President Trump effectively ended Biden’s four-year illegal alien invasion of the United States, and he did it without any new laws being passed.” —Gary Bauer

“Liberals were cool with President Biden defying federal immigration law to import thousands of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members to rape and murder American girls, engage in human trafficking, seize apartment complexes in Colorado and murder police officers. … Only when Trump kicked them out did liberals start wailing about a ‘constitutional crisis.’” —Ann Coulter

And Last…

“We do not ask permission from far-left Democrats before we deport illegal immigrants. We do the American people’s business.” —JD Vance