Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

“I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity.” —Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, March 2021

Demagogues

“I am not OK with any deportation. I think all deportation is wrong because I think it is an incredibly cruel punishment that is really only relegated to people on the basis of where they were born. And, you know, I think that we just should not have a system that allows deportation to happen at all.” —New York congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier

“Well, I personally think the Electoral College is an abomination. For obvious reasons.” —Hillary Clinton

Race Bait

“The Electoral College is rooted in slavery. That was the entire reason that it was invented, essentially.” —The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill

“Two years ago I signed an executive order establishing a task force to shine a light on the harm that slavery and racist policies have caused and continue to cause.” —Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (Has anyone told him that there was no slavery in Chicago and that it ended elsewhere 160 years ago?)

“[Barack] Obama was basically a degree more liberal than Bill Clinton, you know? … The only reason people think he was liberal is because he’s black.” —former NBC host Chuck Todd

Delusions of Grandeur

“I think Democrats are the party of real freedom.” —Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro

Showing His True Colors

“There’s no chance I would support the Republican Party. … How could I or any American voter support a political party that’s not loyal to the United States, that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens? … There’s no defending this, because it’s immoral. … I’m out.” —turncoat political commentator Tucker Carlson

Re: The Left

“For eight years, 10 years, they said, ‘Trump is a Nazi.’ Now they can’t say that anymore because they have a guy with a tattoo on his chest. It’s unbelievable.” —President Donald Trump

“The rejection of beauty in everything is a mainstay of the modern Marxist Left. They don’t want to remind us of past glory. They would rather force people to dodge human excrement in the streets than allow them to enjoy the beautiful and historic Reflecting Pool on the National Mall.” —Gary Bauer

“The Dems and their union puppet masters don’t want to get rid of [school choice] programs because they are failing the kids. They want to abolish them because they are getting better results than the public schools. … Maybe the unions define a ‘uniform education system’ as one that is uniformly bad.” —Stephen Moore

“The Marxist constituency has remained as narrow as the conception behind it. The Communist Manifesto, written by two bright and articulate young men without responsibility even for their own livelihoods — much less for the social consequences of their vision — has had a special appeal for successive generations of the same kinds of people.” —economist Thomas Sowell in Marxism: Philosophy and Economics

Political Futures

“Democrats have the upper hand when Congress is weak because federal bureaucrats, and judges capable of issuing nationwide injunctions, continue advancing Democratic designs on their own. Fed up with this, many conservatives have come around to the idea only a brash and strong president, like Trump, wielding unitary executive power, can rein in the administrative state and activist judges — Congress can’t.” —Daniel McCarthy

For the Record

“Judged against the standard that the president set … when he spoke of unconditional surrender, this is not a particularly good deal for the United States. On the other hand, it’s worth remembering … the extraordinary amount of damage that has been done to Iran militarily. … It’s still as evil and determined as ever, perhaps, but I think greatly weakened.” —political analyst Brit Hume

And Last…

“I’ve never saw it to be my place to use my stage or platform, no matter where I’m playing, to tell people how to think or how to vote.” —singer-songwriter Kenny Chesney