And the New York Times story notwithstanding, the attack had nothing to do with rising rates of San Francisco homelessness.
As Paul Pelosi, the husband of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was violently attacked in his home, recovered from a skull fracture and awaited brain surgery, Kari Lake, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and many other Republican leaders found the entire story of the attack hysterically funny.
Charlie Kirk sought to raise a defense fund for the antisemitic, QAnon follower, anti-vaxxer, election denier David DePape, who carried out the attack. DePape told the cops that had the Speaker been there he would have busted her kneecaps, “which would show other members of Congress there were consequences to actions.”
It’s hard to imagine anything that could draw a clearer distinction between America’s two major political parties. It’s true that among the countless murderous attacks and threats made to politicians since the Trump era began, an extremely small percentage have come from the left against politicians of the right. But when a deranged leftist shot Republican representative Steve Scalise at a congressional softball game in 2017, he was denounced and deplored by literally every well-known liberal or Democratic politician who offered an opinion. With the Republicans, however, the embrace of violence, both rhetorical and real, together with various forms of conspiratorial insanity, is business as usual.
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