The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

World’s Smallest Violin

“I shouldered the blame for the porous border.” —Kamala Harris

Grand Delusions

“Joe Biden looks like an Olympic athlete compared to the illnesses that [Donald Trump’s] hiding.” —Rep. Eric Swalwell

Yellow Journalism

“Whereas activists like Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos went too far too early in their embrace of baldly racist and homophobic ideas, [Charlie] Kirk had an innate polish and was able to tack quickly among far-right activists, establishment Republicans and skeptical young voters. … He created a new group, Turning Point Faith, to amplify the role of Christian nationalism within the Trump movement.” —The New York Times’s Clay Risen

Credit Where It’s Due

“Political violence, in fact, is political cowardice. It means that you cannot convince people of the correctness of your ideas, and you have to impose them through force.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders

For the Record

“[Charlie Kirk’s] events on campus should be viewed as a public service. All of the best, most creative college deans could have gotten together to figure out how to routinely get thousands of energized students to events about public affairs, and never managed it. No worries. Kirk figured it out for them. That he was shot while he engaged in act of peaceful persuasion makes his murder all the more devastating.” —Rich Lowry

“Data consistently shows progressives are the most mentally fragile people in the nation, overwhelmed with despair, and Democrat politicians are grooming that fragility for violence.” —Erick Erickson

“Calls to ‘tone down the rhetoric’ presuppose that the Left wants to stop the violence. But many on the Left don’t want the violence to stop.” —Gary Bauer

“The point of the left labeling speech as violence was always to justify violence against speech.” —Frank J. Fleming

And Last…

“If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you’re illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you’re a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you’re a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you’re a terrorist.” —author J.K. Rowling