LOL, GOP? Really?
What could possibly better illustrate just how sick the Republican Party has become, how perversely tolerant and thus encouraging of political violence it's grown, than members' laugh-out-loud joshing over the last week — on social media, at campaign rallies — about the bludgeoning of an 82-year-old man married to the much-vilified Democrat who is speaker of the House?
Expressions of sincere sorrow for Paul Pelosi from Republican leaders — statements that aren't followed by "But, what about…?" — are few and far between. Rarer still are denunciations of other Republicans whose rhetoric animates such violence, from inciter-in-chief Donald Trump on down. More common, including from members of Congress, have been punchlines at the Pelosis' expense: homophobic jokes, cracks about sending Nancy Pelosi back to San Francisco for good and mockery of the "hippie nudist from Berkeley" who broke her husband's skull.
