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CONTEXT

A compilation of quotations on a variety of issues by national, state and regional writers, well-known personalities, just plain everyday people and from various publications collected by the editors of THE ADVANCE.

Quotes for our Times:

Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner: Biden drags democrats down.

Nevertheless, it's hard to significantly change a president's trendline in a midterm year. 'Looking back more than 70 years, there hasn't been a single president who substantially improved his job approval rating from late January/early February of a midterm election year to late October/early November,' writes elections analyst Nathan Gonzales. In fact, the opposite has usually happened. 'In the last 18 midterm elections going back to Harry Truman in 1950, the average president's job approval rating dropped eight points between this time of year and election day,' Gonzales notes.

Stephen Moore, political commentator and writer: The greatest government failure in American history.

Now here we are, two years from the start of COVID-19, closing in on 1 million dead and $5 trillion more in debt. Millions of children have suffered, perhaps irreparably, from a loss of schooling (some of which still goes on in some districts). There are some 50,000 to 100,000 deaths of despair caused by the lockdowns. And the virus is still out there, though thankfully in retreat.

Big government didn't save us. On the contrary, big government has left us weaker as a nation in every way, and we will spend decades cursing the fact that we panicked and handed over so much power to so many incompetent people in Washington.

Tucker Carlson, host of FOX News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight: Our democracy is no longer functioning properly, here's

proof.

And in fact, honestly, you'd think that people like this would welcome a chance to reflect on what they've done. They have screwed up very badly. They've hurt the weakest among us. For Christians, that's the greatest sin. But these people aren't Christians. They worship only themselves, so they turn away.

You can bet money that Jen Psaki rarely goes to Baltimore, it's just too depressing. And it raises too many questions. Instead, Jen Psaki and her friends are planning their fun little summer trips to Bozeman or Martha's Vineyard or East Hampton, or some of the remote and blindingly White outposts of privilege.

Julio Rosas, Senior Writer for Townhall: 'Morning Joe' smears Canadian truck drivers protesting COVID mandates as a 'cult'.

Scarborough said the protesters took food out of the mouth of the homeless and they were hypocrites for not being concerned about other vaccines that are required to go to school.

'They’ve become what they hated. They’ve become what they mocked and now they’re taking food from soup kitchens because they’re so put upon for being asked to do what they’ve been asked to do, required to do their entire lives,' he continued. 'It's a cult.'