Pelosi, Vilified by Republicans for Years, Is a Top Target of Threats

The New York Times via SF Gate ^ | October 31, 2022 | By Annie Karni, Catie Edmondson and Carl Hulse , New York Times

[Oldeconomybuyer]

… The attack on Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, on Friday, which left him with a fractured skull and appeared to be part of a planned attack on the speaker herself, came after a yearslong campaign by Republicans to demonize and dehumanize Nancy Pelosi in increasingly ugly ways.

For the better part of two decades, Republicans have targeted Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American politics, as the most sinister Democratic villain of all, making her the evil star of their advertisements and fundraising appeals in hopes of animating their core supporters. The language and images have helped to fuel the flames of anger at Pelosi on the right, fanned increasingly in recent years by a toxic stew of conspiracy theories and misinformation that has thrived on the internet and social media, with little pushback from elected Republicans.

Pelosi is now one of the most threatened members of Congress in the country.

After the grisly assault on Paul Pelosi, 82, many Republican lawmakers and leaders denounced the violence, but hardly any spoke out against the brutal political discourse that has given rise to an unprecedented wave of threats against elected officials. Most instead tried to link the incident to rising crime rates across the country.

As a wealthy woman from the progressive bastion of San Francisco, and her party’s leader in the House for 20 years, Pelosi has long represented a singular target for her political opponents.

“It is gender. It is class. The whole idea of a wealthy San Francisco liberal woman. The whole package is there,” said David Axelrod, the Democratic strategist and former top adviser to President Barack Obama. “The difference is what began as a way to raise money and gin up turnout has now become a much more deadly game.”

[Vaduz]

Your past is a omen of your future.

[Luke21]

How many fruitcakes wrote this?

[Chgogal]

Yup! There are no Republicans in San Francisco. There are crazies though and Mr. P was friendly with one of them.

[tomkat]

The New York Times via SF Gate

Goebbels' heirs.

[Feckless]

The Evil bitch has been a Villain for years.

[dirtymac]

So the #3 leader of the US, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, has a security system that any random guy can just walk into her home and assault her family?????????????

I am not buying the whole story! something stinks.

The police chief stated the 911 operator ‘got the sense that something was more wrong than indicated by the caller, so she dispatched police immediately”. The police got the in 2 1/2 minutes.

You can’t get anywhere in SF in 2 1/2 minutes.

This is starting to look staged as in October surprise.

Don’t trust them not one little bit

[ridesthemiles]

She is ‘wealthy’ due to her insider trading

[kenmcg]

Is that the same Pelosi that stated she would punch out the POTUS and engaged in a phony scheme to impeach a great president? Who's villifying who?