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> [The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-i-hagen/the-old-sv-socialist-left-party-were-useful-idiots-for-the-communists/)

[Carl I. Hagen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-i-hagen/)

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> [ “\[T\]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuri-bezmenov/t-he-useful-idiots-the-leftists-who-are-idealistically-believing-in/)

[Yuri Bezmenov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuri-bezmenov/)

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> [“Conservatives are correct in pointing out that the anything-goes relativism of the campuses wasn’t sequestered there, but when it flowed out across…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-andersen/conservatives-are-correct-in-pointing-out-that-the-anything-goes/)

[Kurt Andersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-andersen/)

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> [Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation's tyrants and their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-e-williams/recent-school-shootings-have-lured-ill-informed-americans-into-a-war/)

[Walter E. Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-e-williams/)

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> [President Trump is, some ways, the personification of a new Bolshevism of the Right, where the ends justify the means and acceptable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-sebag-montefiore/president-trump-is-some-ways-the-personification-of-a-new-bolshevism/)

[Simon Sebag Montefiore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-sebag-montefiore/)

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> [ She \[Hillary Clinton\] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-carson/she-hillary-clinton-is-the-epitome-of-the-progressive-the-secular/)

[Benjamin Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-carson/)

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> [My opinion of Christian Zionists? They're scum. But don't tell them that. We need all the useful idiots we can get right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-netanyahu/my-opinion-of-christian-zionists-they-re-scum-but-don-t-tell-them/)

[Benjamin Netanyahu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-netanyahu/)

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