It’s time to dispel the notion of Nancy Pelosi as a genius tactician. Nobody deserves more blame than the outrageously self-titled “speaker emerita” for the Democrats’ $1 billion electoral defeat.
Under her brutal leadership, her party lost the presidency, the House, the Senate, and the popular vote. You can’t say it enough.
Voters rejected the Democrats from coast to coast, including Pelosi’s deepest-blue home city of San Francisco, which saw a 7-point swing toward Donald Trump.
She is the first speaker in history who has lost control of the House twice.
She’s finished.
The empress emeritus has no clothes.
Yet she still has the audacity to reward herself with another term, filing papers last week to run for re-election in 2026 at the age of 86! She will be 88 by the end of Trump’s term.
When is too much enough?
Her saccharine-coated “Mean Girls” brand of partisan viciousness and deception has done nothing for her party except delay the eventual confrontation between the extremist left and common-sense moderates. Unfortunately for the Democrats, most of them have declined under Pelosi’s leadership.
Lying and infighting
If the Republican Party is Trump’s party, the Democratic Party is Pelosi’s — and what a viper’s nest of blame-shifting and animosity it has become, as they all blame each other for their humiliating defeat at the hands of the man they decried as a Nazi. Most Americans disagreed, and now the Democrats and their media allies are exposed as frauds and liars.
If Trump is such a “existential threat” to democracy, as Pelosi argued until the last end, why did Joe Biden welcome him with wide arms and a beaming smile the other day?
“Welcome back,” said the president to the guy who Pelosi had promised would never return to the White House.
“Welcome back,” said the president to the guy who Pelosi had promised would never return to the White House.
“I decided a while ago that Donald Trump will never set foot in the White House again as president of the United States or in any other capacity,” she told the Guardian before the election, when she was trying to justify the coup against Biden, her former longtime friend who, she kept lying, was “sharp as a tack” until he fell apart on live television.
With her party in ruins, pent-up irritation with Pelosi’s iron control and bad judgment is beginning to surface. Expect it to grow louder as her attempts to shift blame to Biden leave party members bitter.
Since her devastating defeat, Pelosi has been seen openly bickering with Donna Brazile, trading insults with Bernie Sanders, and being mocked on “The View” and MSNBC. The Washington Post fact-checker even gave her a “Four Pinocchios” for claiming that illegal migration was worse under Trump than Biden.
“The View” co-host Ana Navarro branded Pelosi “nasty” for telling the New York Times that if Biden had resigned sooner, the Democrats would have won.
“She wants to clarify that she is not to fault for what happened. It’s very unseemly.”
Symone Sanders Townsend, an MSNBC commentator and former Biden adviser, chastised Pelosi for “orchestrate the very public demise of the president.”
“Nancy Pelosi, everybody talks about how the speaker emerita, you know, she’s so strategic, she can count, she did all of that when she was the speaker in Congress, but my question is: Where is your calculator now?”
Last week, anonymous Democratic lawmakers aired their grievances with Axios.
“She needs to take a seat,” one top Democrat remarked about Pelosi. “Making scattershot comments [blaming others] is not just unhelpful, it’s damaging.”
“[House Minority Leader] Hakeem [Jeffries] has been tremendously graceful and respectful of her, but I don’t think she is being respectful of him,” said another Democratic member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
‘She is the enforcer.’
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was not hesitant to speak out against Pelosi’s destructive legacy.
“She embraced this ‘She’s the Godmother, She’s the Enforcer’ [image], and now she’s blaming Biden,” he told Politico last week. “Well, you cannot have it both ways. You got what you wanted, but you still blame Biden.
“I find it ironic that an 84-year-old woman is still alive. Why not offer a younger generation the opportunity to fill that seat?”
Why not, indeed. The only reason she’s still in Congress is the same reason she insisted that her replacement as speaker, Jeffries, give her the “emerita” title: her ego.
She believes she is the only person capable of hurting Trump’s second administration in the same way she did his first, and she is addicted to the praise of a lapdog press that is too impressed by her gender. They even hailed her classless, divisive gesture of tearing up Trump’s State of the Union speech in 2020, standing just behind him on the podium for all to witness.
During her two decades of amoral, divisive leadership, the Democrats have become the party of censorship, scolding, war, and corporate profits.
She devoted the final years of her career to her obsession with destroying Trump and his supporters, whom she shrewdly set up on Jan. 6, 2021, by refusing to give Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund the National Guard backup he begged for, and then turned the Jan. 6 committee into her personal star chamber.
Despot times
All of her hatred, impeachment, law enforcement, and imprisonment of Trump supporters benefitted neither her party nor the country. Trump is back and better than ever, her party is in disarray, and the country has been through hell for four years.
Dems were seen wearing buttons showing Pelosi and the slogan “Godmother,” with her face on a poster for the legendary Mafia film “The Godfather.” If it’s not an admission that she still organizes the party like a Mafia boss, nothing is.
True, she is a powerful commander in the style of Genghis Khan, as described by one Republican semi-admirer. But what use were her authoritarian abilities to the party she led off the cliff?
She should ride out into the sunset for everyone’s sake.