The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Upright: “Life has risks, and we need to take precautions, but that’s no excuse to intimidate people and shut down churches. If 150 people can keep packing out planes, elbow to elbow for hours, then there’s no reason we can’t sit in a pew on Sunday morning. Religious liberty is a fundamental freedom. Flying on a plane isn’t.” —Tony Perkins

Observations: “It’s not good to be too cynical, but these days, it’s harder and harder not to be. We now have a country full of cynics. They’ve been trained to be cynical. All the lying and posturing and phony branding and hypocrisy come with a price, and that price is nobody believes anything or anyone anymore.” —Neil Patel

For the record: “There is a lot [of people] on that illiberal left that absolutely condescend, patronize, and are arrogant toward the other 50%. Many people … when Trump was voted in four years ago, they were in denial that it was actually real. Some of them were in absolute denial.” —Matthew McConaughey

The BIG Lie: “The Steele dossier was not used in any way to undergird the judgments that came out of the intelligence community assessment about the Russian actions in the 2016 election.” —John Brennan

Income Redistribution 101: “Even if [Americans] don’t know one of our 43 million friends and neighbors buried under 1.5 trillion dollars in federal student loan debt, they understand the need to boost to our struggling economy. This is Econ 101: the best way to jumpstart our economy is to put more money in working families’ pockets — money they can spend in their communities.” —Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

Race bait: “McCarthyism was never defeated. Trumpism won’t be either.” —Yale professor Beverly Gage in The Washington Post

Blowing a gasket: “I’m done with being polite! I actually would like people in this country to stay alive. Unlike some of your friends and Republicans in the Senate and in the House. And President Trump, whose presidency is killing people.” —MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski

Victimitis: “Those of us in journalism have to come to terms with the fact that free speech, a principle that we hold sacred, is being weaponized against the principles of journalism.” —The New Yorker’s Steve Coll

Non compos mentis: “The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.” —Chicago Teachers Union

And last… “Business owners are being arrested in America for just trying to earn a living. In America. Think about that. What a disgrace.” —Lisa Boothe