The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

From the Lucid Right
“We’re watching an enormous misread of the results from Wisconsin. The dumb take is that the DSA has reached its ceiling, and the establishment is fighting back. That’s totally wrong. The normie Dems are simply negotiating the terms of their surrender. … The DSA is driving the car, choosing the direction. The normie Dems are just negotiating over the speed.” —Ben Shapiro

“[David Crowley] isn’t a moderate. He’s just less crazy than [Francesca Hong]. … Some Republicans are calling the crazies ‘moderate’ and acting like they’re sane. We have got to stop turning unacceptable leftists who narrowly defeat Marxists into ‘moderates.’” —Gary Bauer

“No matter how much deception, camouflage, or brainwashing is employed, statism, socialism, and communism can never sustain public support. Throughout history, the Left has therefore begun by changing the rules and altering the demography — if not initially through changes to election rules, bureaucratic fiat, and biased court orders, then eventually through sheer violence.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“Every socialist should be asked if he or she has money in the stock market.” —Laura Ingraham

“There is an unmistakable irony: Some of those most disillusioned with America have benefited enormously from the stability, prosperity, education, freedom and security it provides. Perhaps privilege itself helps explain why. When you have never lived without freedom, freedom can become invisible.” —Armstrong Williams

“If you ever feel useless just know that the leaders over at the WNBA have sat in multiple meetings now trying to figure out what the W of WNBA stands for and they haven’t come to a conclusion yet.” —Paula Scanlan

From the Loony Left
“This was really an issue of judgment. My opponent was the only Minnesota Democrat to vote for … the Laken Riley Act.” —Minnesota Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan

“I think gender-affirming care is part of healthcare.” —Peggy Flanagan

“It’s no secret when I ran for the legislature in 2000, I was a Republican. … I would’ve ran as anything. I would’ve ran as a communist.” —Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson in 2017

“There is a debt unpaid. I think it is a very, very difficult question how to pay it.” —Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff in 2019 regarding reparations

“A multi-racial new deal, in my view, is what is needed.” —California Congressman Ro Khanna

“This blood-and-soil narrative that’s being pushed at the highest levels of our government … to hearken back to times when it was explicit that there was a hierarchy among Americans … that’s what’s happening right now.” —Kamala Harris

“They have, essentially with the Callais decision, backdoored racism … and have essentially reinstated a Jim Crow system in America.” —Kamala Harris

“Republicans have adopted voter suppression as an electoral strategy, and they’re going to do everything they can to try to rig the election in their favor.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

“What I tell people when they want to understand what authoritarianism can look like in the U.S., I say look south. We have lived under soft authoritarianism … since 1776.” —former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams