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It’s precocious clip to shatter the story of Nancy Pelosi arsenic a maestro strategist. Nobody deserves much blasted than the ridiculously self-titled "speaker emerita" for the Democrats’ $1 cardinal electoral collapse.
Under her ruthless leadership, her enactment mislaid the White House, the House, the Senate and the fashionable vote. You can’t accidental that enough.
Voters rejected the Dems from seashore to coast, adjacent successful Pelosi’s deepest-blue location metropolis of San Francisco, which saw a 7-point plaything to Donald Trump.
She’s the lone talker successful past to person mislaid power of the House twice.
She’s finished.
The empress emeritus has nary apparel (perish the thought).
Yet she inactive has the nervus to reward herself with different term, filing the papers past week to tally for re-election successful 2026, astatine the tender property of 86! She’ll beryllium 88 astatine the extremity of Trump’s term.
When is excessively overmuch enough?
Her saccharine-coated "Mean Girls" benignant of partisan viciousness and deviousness turns retired to person done thing for her enactment but postpone the inevitable reckoning betwixt the extremist near and common-sense moderates. Unfortunately for the Dems, astir of the second person taken a hike nether Pelosi’s reign.
Lying and infighting
If the GOP is Trump’s party, the Democratic Party is Pelosi’s — and what a viper’s nest of blame-shifting and rancor it has become, arsenic they each blasted each different for their humiliating decision astatine the hands of the antheral they derided arsenic a Nazi. Most Americans didn’t agree, and present the Democrats and their media handmaidens basal exposed arsenic frauds and liars.
If Trump is specified an "existential threat" to democracy, arsenic Pelosi insisted to the bitter end, wherefore did Joe Biden greet him with unfastened arms and a beaming grin the different day?
"Welcome back," said the president to the antheral Pelosi vowed would ne'er again participate the White House.
"Welcome back," said the president to the antheral Pelosi vowed would ne'er again participate the White House.
"I decided a portion agone that Donald Trump volition ne'er acceptable ft successful the White House again arsenic president of the United States oregon successful immoderate different capacity," she told the Guardian earlier the predetermination erstwhile she was trying to warrant the coup against Biden, her erstwhile longtime person who, she kept lying, was "sharp arsenic a tack" until helium fell isolated connected unrecorded TV.
With her enactment successful ruins, pent-up vexation with Pelosi’s robust grip and flawed judgement is starting to find voice. Expect it to get louder arsenic her efforts to offload blasted connected Biden permission a sour sensation successful the mouths of enactment loyalists.
Since the humiliating defeat, Pelosi has been filmed publically squabbling with Donna Brazile, has traded barbs with Bernie Sanders and has been ripped connected "The View" and MSNBC. The Washington Post fact-checker adjacent awarded her "Four Pinocchios" for lying that amerciable migration was worse nether Trump than Biden.
"The View" co-host Ana Navarro called Pelosi "nasty" for telling the New York Times that the Dems would person won if Biden had discontinue sooner.
"She wants to marque definite radical cognize it wasn’t her, [that] she has nary blasted successful this. … It’s truly unseemly."
Symone Sanders Townsend, MSNBC big and erstwhile Biden aide, blasted Pelosi for helping "orchestrate the precise nationalist demise of the president."
"Nancy Pelosi, everybody talks astir however the talker emerita, you know, she’s truthful strategic, she tin count, she did each of that erstwhile she was the talker successful Congress, but my question is: Where is your calculator now?"
Anonymous Dem lawmakers vented their spleen to Axios past week.
"She needs to instrumentality a seat," 1 elder Democrat said of Pelosi. "Making scattershot comments [blaming others] is not conscionable unhelpful, it’s damaging."
"[House Minority Leader] Hakeem [Jeffries] has been tremendously graceful and respectful of her, but I don’t deliberation she is being respectful of him," said different Dem, a subordinate of the Congressional Black Caucus.
'She's the enforcer'
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) wasn’t acrophobic to spell on the grounds to explicit his vexation astatine Pelosi’s toxic legacy.
"She embraced this ‘She’s the Godmother, she’s the enforcer’ [image] and present she’s blaming Biden," helium told Politico past week. "Well, you can’t person it some ways. You got what you wanted, and present you’re inactive blaming Biden.
"I deliberation it’s truly ironic that you person a pistillate astatine property 84 and she is inactive hanging on. Why not springiness a younger procreation an accidental to inhabit that seat?"
Why not indeed. The lone crushed she’s hanging astir Congress is the aforesaid crushed she demanded her successor arsenic speaker, Jeffries, bestow connected her the "emerita" title: her ego.
She believes she is the lone idiosyncratic susceptible of crippling Trump’s 2nd presidency similar she did his first, and she is addicted to the adulation of a lapdog property overly impressed with the information that she is female. They adjacent praised her classless, divisive stunt of ripping up Trump’s State of the Union code successful 2020, lasting close down him astatine the podium for each the satellite to see.
In her 2 decades of amoral, divisive leadership, the Democrats person go the enactment of censorship, scolds, warfare and firm interests.
She devoted the twilight years of her vocation to her obsession with destroying Trump and his supporters, whom she slyly acceptable up connected Jan. 6, 2021, by refusing to springiness Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund the National Guard backup helium begged for, and past turned the Jan. 6 committee into her idiosyncratic prima chamber.
Despot times
All her hatred, the impeachments and lawfare and jailing of Trump allies, served neither her enactment nor the country. Trump is back, amended than ever, her enactment is successful ruins and the state has been done hellhole for 4 years.
At the DNC normal that anointed Kamala Harris arsenic their doomed statesmanlike candidate, Dems were seen sporting buttons featuring Pelosi and the connection "Godmother" with her look connected a poster for the iconic Mafia movie "The Godfather." If that’s not an admittance that she inactive runs the enactment similar a Mafia don, thing is.
It is existent that she is simply a formidable person successful the Genghis Khan mold, arsenic 1 GOP semi-admirer describes her. But what bully were her dictatorial skills to the enactment she led disconnected a cliff?
She needs to thrust disconnected into the sunset, for everyone’s sake.
Miranda Devine is simply a writer, New York Post columnist and Fox News contributor.