I’d already planned my last post when I woke up to this video of Nancy Pelosi’s response to the Capitol Hill riot, sent to me by a friend:

Now I was horrified by the scenes at the Capitol, and I think it’s obvious that the President, and his consiglieri Rudy Giuliani, caused it. I don’t think Trump had the imagination to understand what he was unleashing, but he unleashed it. But this video made me extremely angry. Trump’s words were the words of an unbalanced narcissist who feeds off the energy of the crowds. Pelosi’s words are the carefully chosen words of a woman who does not think she has to speak to anyone but the people in her bubble. And as much as I criticized the press yesterday for talking about “them” versus “us,” it’s even more imperative for our leaders to understand, as opposed to just paying lip…