It’s excessive time to shatter the parable of Nancy Pelosi as a grasp strategist. No person deserves extra blame than the ridiculously self-titled “speaker emerita” for the Democrats’ $1 billion electoral collapse.
Beneath her ruthless management, her celebration misplaced the White Home, the Home, the Senate and the favored vote. You may’t say that sufficient.
Voters rejected the Dems coast to coast, even in Pelosi’s deepest-blue dwelling metropolis of San Francisco, which noticed a 7-point swing to Donald Trump.
She’s the one speaker in historical past to have misplaced management of the Home twice.
She’s completed.
The empress emeritus has no garments, perish the thought.
And but she nonetheless has the cover to reward herself with one other time period, submitting the papers final week to run for re-election in 2026, on the tender age of 86! She’ll be 88 on the finish of Trump’s time period.
When is an excessive amount of sufficient?
Her saccharine-coated “Imply Ladies” fashion of partisan viciousness and deviousness seems to have executed nothing for her celebration however postpone the inevitable reckoning between radical left and customary sense moderates. Sadly for the Dems, a lot of the latter have taken a hike below Pelosi’s reign.
Mendacity and infighting
If the GOP is Trump’s celebration, the Democratic Celebration is Pelosi’s — and what a viper’s nest of blame-shifting and rancor it has turn into, as all of them blame one another for his or her humiliating defeat by the hands of the person they derided as a Nazi. Most People didn’t agree, and now the Democrats and their media handmaidens stand uncovered as frauds and liars.
If Trump is such an “existential menace” to democracy, as Pelosi insisted to the bitter finish, then why did Joe Biden greet him with open arms and a beaming smile the opposite day?
“Welcome again,” mentioned the president to the person Pelosi vowed would by no means once more set foot within the White Home.
“I made a decision some time in the past that Donald Trump won’t ever set foot within the White Home once more as president of the US or in some other capability,” she instructed The Guardian earlier than the election when she was attempting to justify the coup towards Biden, her former longtime good friend who she saved mendacity was “sharp as a tack” till he fell aside on dwell TV.
Together with her celebration in ruins, the pent-up frustration with Pelosi’s iron grip and flawed judgment is beginning to discover voice. Count on it to get louder as her efforts to off-load blame on Biden depart a bitter style with celebration loyalists.
Because the humiliating defeat, Pelosi has been filmed publicly squabbling with Donna Brazile, has traded barbs with Bernie Sanders and has been ripped on “The View” and MSNBC. The Washington Submit fact-checker even awarded her “4 Pinocchio’s” for mendacity that unlawful migration was worse below Trump than Biden.
“The View” co-host Ana Navarro known as Pelosi “nasty” for telling The New York Occasions that the Dems would have received if Biden had give up sooner.
“She needs to ensure folks understand it wasn’t her, [that] she has no blame on this. . . . It’s actually unseemly.”
Symone Sanders Townsend, MSNBC host and former Biden aide, blasted Pelosi for serving to “orchestrate the very public demise of the president.”
“Nancy Pelosi, everyone talks about how the speaker emerita, you recognize, she’s so strategic, she will rely, she did all of that when she was the speaker in Congress, however my query is: The place is your calculator now?”
Nameless Dem lawmakers vented their spleen to Axios final week.
“She wants to sit down,” mentioned one senior Democrat of Pelosi. “Making scattershot feedback [blaming others] isn’t just unhelpful, it’s damaging.”
“Hakeem [Jeffries] has been tremendously swish and respectful of her, however I don’t suppose she is being respectful of him,” mentioned one other Dem, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
‘She’s the enforcer’
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) wasn’t afraid to go on the report to specific his frustration at Pelosi’s poisonous legacy.
“She embraced this ‘she’s the Godmother, she’s the enforcer’ [image] and now she’s blaming Biden,” he instructed Politico final week. “Nicely, you possibly can’t have it each methods. You bought what you needed, and now you’re nonetheless blaming Biden.
“I believe it’s actually ironic that you’ve a lady at age 84 and he or she remains to be hanging on. Why not give a youthful technology a chance to occupy that seat?”
Why not, certainly. The one motive she’s hanging round Congress is similar motive she demanded her successor as speaker, Hakeem Jeffries, bestow on her the “emerita” title: her ego.
She believes she is the one particular person able to crippling Trump’s second presidency like she did his first, and he or she is hooked on the adulation of a lapdog press overly impressed with the actual fact she is feminine. They even praised her classless, divisive stunt of ripping up Trump’s State of the Union speech in 2020 standing proper behind him on the podium for all of the world to see.
In her 20 years of amoral, divisive management, the Democrats have turn into the celebration of censorship, scolds, conflict and company pursuits.
She devoted the twilight years of her profession to her obsession with destroying Trump and his supporters, whom she slyly arrange on Jan. 6, 2021, by refusing to offer Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund the Nationwide Guard backup he begged for, after which turned the Jan. 6 committee into her private star chamber.
Despot instances
All her hatred, the impeachments and lawfare and jailing of Trump allies, served neither her celebration nor the nation. Trump is again, higher than ever, her celebration is in ruins and the nation has been via hell for 4 years.
On the DNC conference that anointed Kamala Harris as their doomed presidential candidate, Dems have been seen sporting buttons that includes Pelosi and the phrase “Godmother” together with her face on a poster for the long-lasting Mafia film “The Godfather.” If that’s not an admission that she nonetheless runs the celebration like a Mafia don, nothing is.
It’s true that she is a formidable chief within the “Genghis Khan” mildew, as one GOP semi-admirer describes her. However what good have been her dictatorial expertise to the celebration she led off a cliff?
She must trip off into the sundown, for everybody’s sake.
