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“It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous this moment is. Using the machinery of criminal justice to pursue manufactured charges against political predecessors is the stuff of strongmen and collapsing democracies… … It corrodes trust in democratic transitions, chills dissent, and redefines political opposition as criminal subversion.”
“Up until now, Democrats have treated our political system like it’s still governed by norms, guarded by limits and rooted in fairness. Rules were meant to be followed. It hurts to say it, but that era has come to an end.”
— New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), writing in the Houston Chronicle.
“The list of reasons why I’m now a Democrat continues to grow. Most importantly, my decision puts me in the best possible position each day to love my neighbor.”
— Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, writing in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, on why he left the Republican party to become a Democrat.
“To me, what’s ironic is, is that the Trump administration is making the same mistake that the Biden administration made, which was to basically, remember we had Bidenomics is working, well, now we have the Golden Age of American Prosperity is returned, and Americans are not feeling that. Better to say we’re working hard to put America on the right road, rather than declaring premature victory. … I think that’s a big mistake for the White House and is likely to come back and bite them in the midterm election.”
Karl Rove told Fox News that President Trump that he’s “making the same mistake” Joe Biden did and is likely to pay a political price for it.”
“These people do it naturally — naturally. I said, what happens if they get it to a farmer the other day? What happens if they get a bad back? He said, ‘They don’t get a bad back, sir, because if they get a bad back, they die.’ I said, that’s interesting, isn’t it? In many ways, they’re very, very special people.”
— President Donald Trump told CNBC that migrants are “naturally” able to do farm work in a way American citizens can’t.
“This is a war. We are at war. And that’s why the gloves are off and I say, bring it on.”
— New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), speaking about the Republican efforts to redistrict mid-cycle.
“You are fat, you are a joke, you are stupid, you are not funny, you are not as smart as you think you are… This entire thing has been a scam. When we look back on the history of populism in America, we are going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history. And the liberals were right. The MAGA supporters were had. They were.”
— Far-Right influencer Nick Fuentes, quoted by Newsweek, denouncing Donald Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
From his first day as a candidate, Trump has appeared animated by anger, fear, and, most of all, pettiness, a small-minded vengefulness that takes the place of actual policy making. It taints the air in the executive branch like a forgotten bag of trash in a warm house on a summer day—even when you can’t see it, you know it’s there.”
“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought. Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place. A fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power. Of commitment to seek justice for victims. Of dedication to truth above all else.”
— Maureen Comey, quoted by Politico, the day after she was fired as a federal prosecutor.
“We need to learn from the blacks. The way they were able to remove the power from the n-word word by using it. So from now on it’s: What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what’s hanging, my Nazi?”
— Greg Gutfeld, on Fox News.
