Yesterday I read an op-ed in a major publication in which the author drew a direct connection between the recent assault against the husband of Nancy Pelosi and the violence on the Kansas frontier in the 1850s. I actually went back and read it again to see if I had missed a key statement that would give this particular piece even a grain of legitimacy.
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