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THREAD — ON NANCY PELOSI

Let me explain why I focus on #Pelosi.

She's been showered with endless praise in the Trump era. But her record on holding Bush and Trump accountable is abysmal.

She is the epitome of establishment Dems, which is why the elite media fawns over her.
Take the famous sideways clap. She got endless praise and adulation for her apparent sarcasm, only to have her later say it was genuine.

Pelosi was actually APPLAUDING Trump.

Think about that. The Dem leader cheering a racist criminal who tortures children.
#Pelosi refused to impeach Bush for a war based on lies.

She refuses to impeach Barr or Kavanaugh.

She is leading #impeachment-lite for Trump, where he'll get a free pass for his most egregious abuses and he'll be able to claim exoneration for them.
And even while Trump was kidnapping migrant children and inciting white supremacist violence, she was praying for him and saying she wanted to give him a "signature achievement" on infrastructure.

Meanwhile, she extended the #PatriotAct, giving him sweeping surveillance powers.
What Pelosi does is performative opposition.

She invokes the founders, but in fact is fundraising off Trump & impeachment.

Under her "leadership" and that of the Obamas, Clintons, Schumer, Hoyer, etc. Democrats have LOST GROUND to the far right.

But the praise keeps coming...
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