{"id":9212,"date":"2022-11-03T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9212"},"modified":"2022-11-03T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:04:06","slug":"the-attack-on-nancy-pelosis-husband-is-the-culmination-of-longtime-gop-hate-mongering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9212","title":{"rendered":"The attack on Nancy Pelosi\u2019s husband is the culmination of longtime GOP hate-mongering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“It\u2019s now clear the speaker was the target of Friday\u2019s attack. The assailant broke into the home looking for her<\/a>, reportedly shouting, \u201cWhere is Nancy?\u201d \u2014 echoing what insurrectionists called out when they breached the US Capitol on January 6<\/a>, 2021 \u2014 and saying that he would wait \u201cuntil Nancy got home\u201d as he confronted Paul Pelosi. The speaker\u2019s husband suffered a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands that required surgery after the assailant bludgeoned him with a hammer. The attacker faces federal assault and attempted kidnapping<\/a> charges. (A spokesperson for the speaker said in a statement<\/a> that Paul Pelosi is expected to make a full recovery.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans have dismissed any connection between their rhetoric and the attack. Instead, they\u2019ve blamed Democratic policies on crime and suggested that growing political violence may be the result of general anxiety around election legitimacy. Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO who was cheered by Republicans<\/a> when he bought Twitter<\/a> last week, has advanced a right-wing anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory<\/a> around the circumstances of the attack. Though he deleted his post, it remained on Twitter long enough to be amplified and repeated by many on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even before Pelosi became speaker, Republicans in the party and those adjacent to it have demonized her regularly, featuring her in attack ads and lambasting her on Fox News. At least one of her colleagues in the House, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), has directly indicated support for violence against her. And members of right-wing militia groups such as the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters have sought her assassination<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police haven\u2019t gone into further detail about the attacker\u2019s motivations, but his Facebook posts<\/a> on conspiracy theories around Covid-19 vaccines, the 2020 election, and the January 6 attack provide a window into his radicalization. Other blog posts under his name<\/a> contained screeds against minorities, politicians, women, and global elites, and content related to QAnon<\/a> \u2014 the false pro-Trump conspiracy theory that a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles, including prominent Democrats like Pelosi, are running the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of those posts reference Pelosi specifically, but all of them intersect with the ways she has been a familiar target of the right \u2014 and not just on the political fringes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/10\/29\/23430340\/nancy-pelosi-paul-pelosi-political-violence-republican-attacks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It\u2019s now clear the speaker was the target of Friday\u2019s attack. The assailant broke into the home looking for her, reportedly shouting, \u201cWhere is Nancy?\u201d \u2014 echoing what insurrectionists called out when they breached the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 \u2014 and saying that he would wait \u201cuntil Nancy got home\u201d as he confronted Paul Pelosi. The speaker\u2019s husband suffered a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands that required surgery after the assailant bludgeoned him with a hammer. The attacker faces federal assault and attempted kidnapping charges. (A spokesperson for the speaker said in a statement that Paul Pelosi is expected to make a full recovery.)
\nRepublicans have dismissed any connection between their rhetoric and the attack. Instead, they\u2019ve blamed Democratic policies on crime and suggested that growing political violence may be the result of general anxiety around election legitimacy. Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO who was cheered by Republicans when he bought Twitter last week, has advanced a right-wing anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory around the circumstances of the attack. Though he deleted his post, it remained on Twitter long enough to be amplified and repeated by many on the right.<\/p>\n

Even before Pelosi became speaker, Republicans in the party and those adjacent to it have demonized her regularly, featuring her in attack ads and lambasting her on Fox News. At least one of her colleagues in the House, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), has directly indicated support for violence against her. And members of right-wing militia groups such as the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters have sought her assassination.<\/p>\n

Police haven\u2019t gone into further detail about the attacker\u2019s motivations, but his Facebook posts on conspiracy theories around Covid-19 vaccines, the 2020 election, and the January 6 attack provide a window into his radicalization. Other blog posts under his name contained screeds against minorities, politicians, women, and global elites, and content related to QAnon \u2014 the false pro-Trump conspiracy theory that a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles, including prominent Democrats like Pelosi, are running the world.<\/p>\n

None of those posts reference Pelosi specifically, but all of them intersect with the ways she has been a familiar target of the right \u2014 and not just on the political fringes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,1237,1742,130,847],"class_list":["post-9212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-hate","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-republican","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9213,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions\/9213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}