Demagogue

“Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in Los Angeles.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Up Is Down

“Law enforcement isn’t to prevent crime. Law enforcement solves crime. Okay? That is what they are supposed to do. They are supposed to solve crimes, not necessarily prevent them from happening.” —Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Praetorian Guard

“It is Trump-aligned influencers who are posting up a storm about [Iryna Zarutska] on social media… Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, other Trump-aligned figures succeeded in making this senseless death a symbol of big city crime.” —CNN’s Brian Stelter

“Some of the comments around this story are baldly racist, stoking fear of African Americans because this man attacked a white woman.” —Brian Stelter

“A Gruesome Murder in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right.” —New York Times headline

“Ukrainian refugee killed in North Carolina gets dragged into political messaging war.” —Politico headline

For the Record

“Tragically, a public transportation system in a major American city was more dangerous than the active war zone that she left. … Her death was entirely preventable.” —White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

“If a white man randomly murdered a black woman on a Charlotte train, every major media outlet would be using this ‘racially motivated hate crime’ to attack every MAGA voter. They would be blaming President Trump for the ‘atmosphere of hate he created’ in our country.” —Gary Bauer

“Since the great wave of de-institutionalization in the 1960s, we’ve lost the collective will to insist that those suffering from serious mental illness get help, in an institution if necessary. … It does no one any favors — not the mentally ill, or the general public — to let them go untreated, living lives of squalor in public places.” —Rich Lowry

“Cleaning up the crime in our streets — and on public transportation — is impossible without cleaning up the way government works, which means unmasking the officials responsible for decisions that endanger lives.” —Daniel McCarthy

The Bottom Line

“It’s a multitude of factors to establish reasonable suspicion. But if an illegal alien has an MS-13 tattoo on his head, that’s certainly going to be one of the factors that we consider when we add a bunch of factors together. It’s a culmination of factors. Not one factor, different factors. … We’re not racial-profiling anybody.” —border czar Tom Homan

Re: The Left

“This is simply the world’s longest, most drawn-out temper tantrum over losing an election.” —Senate Majority Leader John Thune on the Democrats’ logjam on nominees