Editorial: Texas' two senators inflame political rhetoric with their responses to the attack.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her husband, Paul Pelosi in 2019. Paul Pelosi was recently attacked by a man seeking to kidnap and harm Nancy Pelosi. Calling and condemning political violence by its name, whatever the motive, shouldn’t be difficult.SAN ANTONIO — In the early morning hours of Oct. 28, an intruder broke into a home in San Francisco and beat an 82-year-old man with a hammer, fracturing his skull.
Also startling was the number of elected Republicans refusing to call the attack what it was: an act of political violence. But that tenor and tone quickly dissipated among disagreement about whether this was a politically motivated or influenced attack. In our view, it clearly was. This is what moves Cornyn to comment on the case? Not the trauma of a fellow human? Not a prayer for recovery? Just another chance to score a point on immigration?
But as conservative commentator Max Boot wrote in the Washington Post: “Political violence in America is being driven primarily by the far right, not the far left, and the far right is much closer to the mainstream of the Republican Party than the far left is to the Democratic Party.”
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