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The claim: George S. Patton said, Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.
A meme dating to 2015, claiming that World War II Gen. George S. Patton expressed disdain for left-wing Democrats, surfaced on Facebook in the days after the November election. It’s already gotten a one-two fact-check punch from Snopes and PolitiFact.
The short answer: There is no evidence that Patton an innovator in the use of tanks in combat ever said this. Snopes found the earliest use of the quote in “The Unknown Patton” by Charles Province, a 1983 book. Province did not use footnotes in his book and said the work was not a biography.