The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Insight: “The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ‘we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ‘them’, the Lower Orders.” —George Orwell (1903-1950)

Upright: “The moral revolutionaries will come with rhetoric designed to lead your institutions into full retreat and surrender. They will tell you: ‘Think about how many more students your school will be able to teach if you adopt our policies on gender and sexuality.’ They will coerce you with, ‘We will not partner with your ministry if you continue to hold these convictions — so, in the name of serving others, just abandon your beliefs about homosexuality and transgenderism.’ We can understand this argument and the realities of this kind of pressure. This pressure, however, is a recipe for the absolute dissolution of Christianity in the United States. It is an attempt to erase our witness not only in the public square, but even within the confines of our own ministries.” —Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Political futures: “The Republican Party, we are a working-class party now, and we are a blue-collar party. … The Democratic Party today is the party of wealthy elites on both coasts. It’s the party of big tech and big business.” —Senator Ted Cruz

For the record: “[Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez’s rhetoric implies that there is something artificial about a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour but nothing artificial about a minimum wage of $15. This is ridiculous. The only nonartificial minimum wage is zero — which, incidentally, is what the 1.4 million people the CBO says would lose work due to a $15 national minimum wage will be making if AOC’s side of the argument wins.” —David Harsanyi

Observations: “President Joe Biden, never known for his eloquence, lambasted [Governors Greg] Abbott and [Tate] Reeves for making a ‘big mistake’ and succumbing to ‘Neanderthal thinking.’ But federalism is a stubborn thing, and Uncle Joe has no say in how Texas and Mississippi exercise — or don’t exercise, as the case may be — their ‘police power’ regulatory authority over their respective citizenries.” —Josh Hammer

Friendly fire: “Give me an old-fashioned bigot, because I think at least they have a level of respect that some of these guilty white people who are … professing white guilt. I find them disgusting. To me, it’s liberal racism, because you’re treating people as impotent children. I can confront malice with violence. I can’t confront folly.” —civil rights icon Bob Woodson

Non compos mentis: “This message of ‘acceptance’ does not acknowledge structural power imbalances. It doesn’t address the idea that historical narratives impact present-day power structures. And instead of encouraging young readers to recognize and take action against injustice, the story promotes a race-neutral approach.” —an assessment of the Dr. Seuss classic “The Sneetches” by the corrupt SPLC’s leftist orthodoxy in education outfit, Learning for Justice

Dumb and dumber: “We [China and the U.S.] have two very different cultures, and we have two very different perspectives on the world. That’s not to say one perspective is better than the other.” —HHS nominee Xavier Becerra in 1997 (Becerra further asserted, “It’s not so much that they don’t agree with us. It’s that they look at things differently.”)

Braying jackass: “I’ll say it again: people on the right would trade all the tax cuts for the ability to openly say the n-word like in ‘the good old days.’ To them, not being able to be openly racist and discriminatory without consequence is oppression.” — MSNBC’s Joy Reid

Alpha jackass I: “[Texas Republican leaders] literally want to sacrifice the lives of our fellow Texans for, I don’t know, for political gain, to satisfy certain powerful interests within the state. And this isn’t hyperbole.” —Beto O'Rourke

Alpha jackass II: “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that [the Republican Party is] also a cult of death.” —Beto O'Rourke (And the abortion-obsessed Democrat Party isn’t?)

And last… “It wasn’t until [Governor Gavin] Newsom was threatened with a recall election that he backed off his strict edicts and began allowing 40 million Californians out of their basements. Now he says there will be full attendance at the Dodgers home opener. What a difference 1.8 million signatures on a recall petition make.” —Michael Reagan