Among the most shameful events of the midterm election season this year has been the rumor-mongering and conspiracy-theorizing about what lurid things could have led to the attack on the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. A man was attacked in his home, in an attack that allegedly was aimed at his wife. Instead of praying for Paul Pelosi and condemning the violence, some Republican politicians made jokes about, for example, sending Nancy home in the election to spend more time with Paul. Democrats, of course, made matters worse by blaming the violence on the right. How about we all turn down the temperature and see one another as human beings who have differences?
On the left, someone will charge that we on the right are wrong on a whole host of fundamentals and have to get with the times. On the right, someone will counter that the Left poses an existential threat to America. We need to have some significant substantive debates that affect lives, including those of the most vulnerable. And we have to insist on listening to one another, or we will never convince anyone of anything.
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