This sits squarely on Trump's shoulders. 

It’s fucking scary how many people in here have been ok with this whole “Pelosi is really the one at fault for Trump’s actions here” narrative.

Yeah, this is all totally on Pelosi.

Yeah, it’s a good thing Trump and his ilk have never been racist and/or violent towards people without first waiting for Pelosi to criticize them individually.

No, it was more the idea that Trump could lose (which was conventional wisdom in 2016.) I feel like people have overlearned the lesson of 2016.

Pretty much all of the Pelosi articles on Splinter seem to skew towards outrage for the sake of outrage rather than an actual understanding of how our government (and campaign strategy) operates. Whether it’s calling for impeachment with a president who will never voluntarily resign and a senate that will never, ever…

And you sound like an idiot when you insinuate that Donald Trump was only racist here because Nancy Pelosi somehow made him be. Do you realize how goddamned crazy that sounds? That your hatred of Pelosi is so blinding that you’re somehow excusing Trump’s actions here. BECAUSE THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS!!!!!

If you actually listened to the statements made by Dems . . . they weren’t particularly watered down. (Here’s Swalwell, for example, clearly reiterating the many ways Trump has been racist, and clearly calling it out for what it is.) Pelosi’s framing them as watered-down now is a gambit: she’s painting the Democrats…

Why the hell are you worrying about the base? Why the hell do you care about the Fox viewers? The base will never change! Just write them off. Ignore them. They’re stuck at 42%. Worry about the rest of the country and ignore the 42%. They’re static. Fuckem. Not worth your sweat.

Agreed.

Nope, they’re right. It was all Nancy Pelosi’s fault Trump was racist.

Relax. The election is 15 months away.

The writers’ shortfall is really a shame sometimes, because these events are all great points of conversation. I don’t like everything Pelosi’s ever done either, but her strategy on this event is a good one. A resolution isn’t actual legislation per se, so I don’t know why people are expecting it to be a magic…

You realize you sound just like the Republicans who are saying “IT’S NANCY PELOSI’S FAULT TRUMP WAS FORCED TO BE RACIST TO THESE WOMEN” As if Trump would never say such a thing otherwise.

I don’t think the writers here need to like Pelosi by any means, but I wish they would at least make a basic attempt to understand what she’s trying to do. What she was doing here is Congressional strategy 101; if you’re going to report on politics, then you at least need to understand why it was happening.

The gentleness is a way to get Republicans on record as opposing even the most-generous definitions of racism. Now they’re all being asked to defend their votes and articulate why they don’t think Trump is racist. This is making the whole party extremely uncomfortable right now, because the Republican way of…

The goal here wasn’t to placate Republicans. It was to get them on record as refusing to condemn Trump’s racism, then run attack ads on it in the suburban swing districts in 2020 to pick off moderate Republicans and (hopefully) hold the swing seats they currently do. Trump’s racism plays great in solidly red areas,…

“light, carefree humor,” has me fucking losing it at my office, thank you oh shit lawl

Tom tom tom tom tom tom tom tom tom.

I think actually being a racist is far more offensive than Pelosi just stating facts, but you do you, dipshit.