USA TODAY 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.