The press and Democrats have brushed right by the evidence of the attacker’s mental illness and portrayed the assault as a quasi-MAGA operation. It’s supposedly an extension of the political campaign against Speaker Pelosi, or the inevitable fruit of right-wing election denialism, a kind of follow-on operation to January 6.
In reality, to the extent the attacker represents anything, it’s the milieu of hippie Berkeley more than Steve Bannon’s War Room, but no one is letting that get in the way of a good narrative. …
It’s not clear what election denialism has to do with any of this. It’s just something that progressives hate (for understandable reasons), and so they presume it bears some responsibility for DePape’s crazed violence.
The same goes for political attacks on Nancy Pelosi, which are par for the course for a speaker of the House. If Republicans can’t run negative ads against Pelosi for fear that a lunatic will break into her house at 2 a.m., they can’t run negative ads against anyone — and for a lot of progressive commentators on the Pelosi attack, that’s the ultimate point.
[Where was all this MSM concern over political rhetoric and violence when an assassin showed up on Brett Kavanaugh’s street — having gotten the address from a doxxing by his radical political enemies? — Ed]
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