Kari Lake's shocking joke about Speaker Pelosi reveals a more dangerous side of Trumpism.
After pausing to let the laughter sink in, she continued:"If our lawmakers can have protection, if our politicians can have protection, if our athletes, then certainly the most important people in our lives — our children — should have protection."
Lake is trafficking in Trumpism, but making it sleeker. She cited an actual statistic about budget size, illustrating a decidedly non-Trumpian familiarity with how policy works. She made a coherent — even if misleading — case that children should be offered protection if elites are. And along the way, she normalized political violence by making a joke about the attack on the Pelosi household rather than condemning it, with the poise of a late-night talk show host.
Lake is a smart former news anchor. She surely knows that the suspect — who fractured Paul Pelosi’s skull — reportedly
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