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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

GOP cheers a ghastly crime

Paul Pelosi, husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at a White House reception in May. He’s in the hospital recovering after being assaulted by a home invader last week, a crime joked about by some Republicans. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

When liberals are being routinely dragged out of their beds at night and killed in the street, decent Americans awaiting their turn will ruefully remember Paul Pelosi.

Not the crime against him, terrible though it is. David DePape, a man apparently deranged by years of drugs and Republican demonization of Nancy Pelosi, is accused of breaking into her home in San Francisco last Friday, shouting “Where’s Nancy?” — the same words used by the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

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