First of all, I’m furious that Nancy Pelosi’s house was broken into and her 82 year old husband, Paul, was attacked with a hammer, fracturing his skull. She and her family did not deserve this. But I’m even more pissed off at the motive. The perpetrator was marinating his brain with lies generated by the right, and it caused him to believe what he was doing something was in some way warranted.

…a blog written by a user who called himself “daviddepape” contains an array of angry and paranoid postings. The blog’s domain was registered to an address in Richmond, Calif., in August, and a resident of that town said that Mr. [David] DePape lived at that address. From August until the day before the attack on Mr. Pelosi, the blog featured a flurry of antisemitic sentiments and concerns about pedophilia, anti-white racism and “elite” control of the internet.

One of the blog posts suggested that there had been no mass gassing of prisoners at Auschwitz, and others were accompanied by malicious and stereotypical images. Another reposted a video lecture defending Adolf Hitler.

In one post, written on Oct. 19, the author urged former President Donald J. Trump to choose Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, as his vice-presidential candidate in 2024.

It may be true, as Fox News host Jesse Watters says, that “People are being hit with hammers every day.” But there’s no denying that Paul Pelosi was hit by a hammer because a bunch of extremely horrible people made up a bunch of lies.

And now it has resulted in a vicious attempted murder of the Speaker of the House, who thankfully was not home, and her elderly husband.

There are any number of ways to fight back against this. What’s certain is that it cannot be allowed to stand.

And I know political figures on the right have been attacked, most famously at a Congressional baseball game in 2017. I know someone traveled to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home with the intention of killing him before changing their mind and turning themselves in. These acts are deplorable no matter who is involved.

But look at the things that David DePape was led to believe. It’s a combination of age-old fascist anti-Semitism and white nationalism and brand new manufactured right-wing bullshit. It’s no accident that these two genres of hate meld so seemlessly together in the mind of a man who’s strategizing Donald Trump’s next presidential campaign.

And watch how the right makes excuses, engages in whataboutism, and refuses to even express an ounce of concern of sympathy for the Pelosi family. That’s now how the left reacted to the shooting at the baseball game or the news that Justice Kavanaugh had been at risk.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk, who just purchased Twitter, is using the social media platform to amplify the very pedophilia conspiracies that motivated the attack. Both he and Tulsi Gabbard, who was Mr. DePape’s preferred replacement for “Hang” Mike Pence on Trump’s 2024 ticket, have been working overtime to help Vladimir Putin divide the West and defeat Ukraine. These are not coincidences.

So, yeah, I’m fucking furious.