The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Victim Blaming

“I absolutely hate it when the administration and when the president uses every single incident like this to try to say that Democrats are violent. That just makes the problem worse.” —Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) on the third leftist assassination attempt on Donald Trump

Re: Political Violence

“It’s not that violence itself is abnormal. It’s the nature of our society’s response that worries me most. … In 2026, we are simultaneously numb to attempts on the life of the leader of the free world and surrounded by people who think that such attempts are somewhere between hilarious and completely justified.” —Ian Haworth

“[Saturday] night, another act of political violence shook the nation. At this point, no one should be surprised. ‘The President is a fascist.’ ‘Eat the rich.’ ‘Let the streets soak in capitalists’ blood.‘ 'Globalize the intifada.’ ‘By any means necessary.’ This isn’t fringe rhetoric anymore. It’s been normalized, echoed on campaign trails, and amplified on podcasts where politicians regularly appear. You don’t get to indulge this language, elevate those who use it, and then act shocked when it turns into violence. We need to get back to sanity before we lose our country.” —former NYC Mayor Eric Adams

“While all presidents can be and have been targets, it appears that Donald Trump has an intense emotional effect on some people that causes them to react in extreme ways. For most people, that can mean ill-advised social media posts. For a few, though, it could mean violent impulses. Whatever the case, it seems clear that Trump faces great danger. There is no more important task for the government than protecting him.” —Byron York

Shot/Chasers

“Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities — so long as they do it under the guise of ‘partisanship’ rather than explicit ‘racial bias.’” —Barack Obama

“Must be exhausting to be for gerrymandering one week and against it the next.” —Scott Jennings

“Obama has supported and campaigned for every outrageous Democratic gerrymander, including in Illinois. But now he puts out a sanctimonious statement when the Supreme Court rightfully blocks racial discrimination in redistricting. What a fraud.” —Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)

Race Bait

“Let’s stop dancing around it: under John Roberts, this is the worst Supreme Court in American history. Yes, worse than the Taney Court. Full stop.” —former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison

“Trump’s Supreme Court is dragging us back to the dark and ugly days of Jim Crow.” —Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA)

Conservative Stalwarts

“Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 … was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Court’s §2 precedents in a way that forces states to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids.” —Justice Samuel Alito in Louisiana v. Callais

“Today’s decision should largely put an end to this ‘disastrous misadventure’ in voting-rights jurisprudence. As I explained more than 30 years ago, I would go further and hold that §2 of the Voting Rights Act does not regulate districting at all. … No §2 challenge to districting should ever succeed.” —Justice Clarence Thomas in Louisiana v. Callais

For the Record

“There is a legitimate argument that Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment to the Supreme Court — which President Joe Biden specifically said was directly intended to put a black woman on the Supreme Court — was unconstitutional under federal law.” —Clay Travis

Re: The Left

“The Supreme Court just said that you can’t gerrymander by race and all the people who claim not to be racist are really angry that they can’t be racist.” —Kurt Schlichter

“Democracy is literally dying in America unless Democrats can draw congressional districts based on race, count illegal aliens in the census, and end requirements to show an ID to vote.” —Greg Price

“The Left clearly needs the tone of the news to be frantically negative all the time, to feed their highly agitated base — and hopefully motivated to vote against Trump. But this tone is exactly why half the country thinks the national news is fake.” —Tim Graham

And Last…

“My party, as a Democrat, can’t be defined by just being the exact opposite of whatever the president puts in front of us.” —Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)