This is what Nancy Pelosi said about Trump just before the Butler assassination attempt. "This is not a normal election where you want to win and if you don't, you cooperate and do the best you can for the country and hope to win the next time. This is something that is undermining our democracy. He must be stopped. He cannot be presiden…
This is what Nancy Pelosi said about Trump just before the Butler assassination attempt. "This is not a normal election where you want to win and if you don't, you cooperate and do the best you can for the country and hope to win the next time. This is something that is undermining our democracy. He must be stopped. He cannot be president." (quoted in RealClearPolitics 07/02/2024). This is not the same as saying your opponent’s policies would be bad for the country, that he is “gonna put y’all back in chains,” that he is Putin’s puppet, that his personality is disagreeable. Extreme rhetoric is baked into the First Amendment and is a normal part of our political process. Pelosi’s statement is different in that she explicitly rejects the normal democratic process, ostensibly to protect democracy itself, a stance which logically predicates some kind of extraordinary intervention. As I see it, this kind of rhetoric is only coming from one side.
This is what Nancy Pelosi said about Trump just before the Butler assassination attempt. "This is not a normal election where you want to win and if you don't, you cooperate and do the best you can for the country and hope to win the next time. This is something that is undermining our democracy. He must be stopped. He cannot be president." (quoted in RealClearPolitics 07/02/2024). This is not the same as saying your opponent’s policies would be bad for the country, that he is “gonna put y’all back in chains,” that he is Putin’s puppet, that his personality is disagreeable. Extreme rhetoric is baked into the First Amendment and is a normal part of our political process. Pelosi’s statement is different in that she explicitly rejects the normal democratic process, ostensibly to protect democracy itself, a stance which logically predicates some kind of extraordinary intervention. As I see it, this kind of rhetoric is only coming from one side.