Not Good

It appears that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home was targeted by a right wing terrorist, and her husband was severely injured in a hammer attack.

In the early hours of Friday morning, the intruder entered through a back door of the stately home in San Francisco’s upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood, yelling, “Where is Nancy?”

Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, was thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C., protected by her security detail, but her husband, 82-year-old Paul Pelosi, was home. By the time police officers arrived after being dispatched at 2:27 a.m., they found the assailant and Mr. Pelosi wrestling for control of a hammer. The intruder then pulled the hammer away and “violently attacked” Mr. Pelosi with it in front of the officers, said William Scott, San Francisco’s chief of police.

As leaders from across the political spectrum rushed to condemn the attack, Mr. Pelosi underwent surgery to repair a skull fracture and other injuries. He remained in a San Francisco hospital on Friday afternoon and was expected to make a full recovery, according to Speaker Pelosi’s office.

While the police said they were still investigating the motive and were questioning a suspect they had in custody, the incident heightened fears of political violence less than two weeks before the midterm elections. The assault came as threats and violence against political figures have surged in America, especially after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which brought the Democratic speaker, other lawmakers and the Republican vice president within feet of rioters threatening their lives.

“This was not a random act,” Chief Scott said. “This was intentional.”

This is stochastic terrorism.

Someone talks to their followers about how Nancy Pelosi is evil incarnate, and they know that among the thousands in their audience, there will be someone unbalanced enough, and radicalized enough to engage in violence.

It looks like a lone wolf attach, but it is the intent of the original speaker, whether it be the late and unlamented Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Glen Beck, etc.

Their goal is to foment violence against their opponents while keeping their own hands clean.

Law enforcement should be taking this much more seriously.