Early Friday morning, a 42-year-old former nudist turned QAnon freak named David DePape—who, as the Los Angeles Times delicately put it, had “been drifting further into the world of far-right conspiracies, anti-Semitism, and hate”—allegedly broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and, after yelling, “Where is Nancy?” and “Where are you, Nancy?,” beat her 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, in the head with a hammer in front of police officers responding to a 911 call. DePape, an apparently unstable man duped by right-wing propagandists and grifters, will likely spend decades in prison. The propagandists and grifters will keep on propagandizing and grifting, not even slightly deterred by the whirlwind they’ve sown.
Early Friday morning, a 42-year-old former nudist turned QAnon freak named David DePape—who, as the Los Angeles Times delicately put it, had “been drifting further into the world of far-right conspiracies, anti-Semitism, and hate”—allegedly broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and, after yelling, “Where is Nancy?” and “Where are you, Nancy?,” beat her 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, in the head with a hammer in front of police officers responding to a 911 call. DePape, an apparently unstable man duped by right-wing propagandists and grifters, will likely spend decades in prison. The propagandists and grifters will keep on propagandizing and grifting, not even slightly deterred by the whirlwind they’ve sown.