Jokes about Paul Pelosi aren’t just in bad taste. They normalize political violence | Arwa Mahdawi

Rightwingers are laughing about an attack that left an 82-year-old in hospital. It's a watershed moment in politics

What do you do when an 82-year-old man is attacked at his home with a hammer? You laugh about it, of course. A number of Republicans - people who like to preach to others about family values and civility - seem to find the recent attack on Paul Pelosi very amusing indeed.

Donald Trump Jr, for example, posted a meme on Sunday night showing a pair of underwear and a hammer next to the caption: Got my Paul Pelosi Halloween costume ready." On Monday night, the self-proclaimed Meme Wars General" doubled down on his post, which referenced a baseless conspiracy theory about Pelosi and put up another crude meme mocking the attack.