Who said it?

 "We were in the clothes we'd been wearing for like twenty-four hours.  We get on this bus and it's a couple hour bus ride and people were kind of leaning on their spouse's shoulder and falling asleep.  And this idiot starts walking up and down the bus with his camera and anyone who fell asleep, he would put his finger in their nose and take a picture."

Kathleen "Kappy" Trott, wife of former Rep. David Trott (R-MI), describing a trip to Israel in 2015.  The idiot she describes is then-Rep. Markwayne Mullin.  "I said to myself, if that idiot comes near me when I fall asleep, I'm going to punch him," Mrs. Trott went on.  Too bad she didn't.

Ready for another?

"The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him.  One feels it again when one sees his photographs...it is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs.  In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how ______ sees himself.  The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here."

George Orwell in 1940 reviewing a new translation of Mein Kampf.  Elsewhere he writes, "I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler.  Ever since he came to power...I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him but that I could feel no personal animosity."  You probably thought of this -- I did:

Orwell may have hit on the secret of Trump's appeal -- born with everything material a boy could want, he has contrived to make himself miserable through being unable to let go of any perceived slight.  Twenty-five years after it ceased publication he is still mad a Spy for calling him a "short-fingered vulgarian," and he doesn't even know what it means.  It's the opposite of forgiving your enemies and turning the other cheek, and he doesn't understand that either.

Another?

"I think everybody should vote for Joe Biden if they want our democracy to survive."

You can imagine the kind of death/rape/dismemberment threats Cassidy Hutchinson gets on a daily basis.  Apparently she feels that she has nothing to lose.  The key word is "if."  

Remember the "Durham report," which was supposed to blast the FBI for daring to look into the long-standing subservience of Trump to Vladimir Putin?  Here's someone who took it seriously:

"If people don't go to jail for this, American people should just stand up and say, 'Listen, enough's enough.  Let's don't have elections anymore.'"

And if they don't stand up, Tommy Tuberville and his kind will make sure all this votin' stops.  'Cause Trump didn't win so it's rigged.  Ass.  Illiterate ass.

"The former president is focusing his most vicious attacks on domestic political opponents, setting off fresh worries among autocracy experts."

Well, let's see.  It states the blindingly obvious, it has the hand-wringing tone of a disappointed Sunday school teacher and it laterals the ball to "autocracy experts."  Like who?  Xi Jinping?  Heather Cox Richardson?  Attila the Hun?  Each, in a way, an expert.

It took two people to write this in The New York Times, nervously backing each other up.  They finally heard the echoes of 1930s Italy and Germany.  They remembered that only one Republican, Thomas Dewey, has lost successive presidential elections, as if that matters.  And of course, there's a poll that shows neo-Hitler leading in five swing states, so be afraid.  But don't panic.  But, you know, worry.

What Orwell would have said about writing like this.