Does Nancy Pelosi truly believe that the countless state and county offices of her own party that have called for a ceasefire are aligned with the Russians? Unions representing millions of American workers? The city council of Chicago? All of them agents of hostile foreign powers who have chosen this particular issue to unleash their Manchurian candidates? She doesn’t. Just as when she calls for the FBI to investigate activists protesting for a ceasefire, the message’s primary audience isn’t the FBI or the activists, it’s the base. It is to say, to the centrist who simply cannot understand why
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