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Pelosi on the State of Political Discourse: In the 90s, GOP Decided on ‘Politics of Personal Destruction’

by Josh Feldman | 1:01 pm, June 15th, 2017

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi today weighed in on the state of political discourse and while she didn’t want to get into it too much, she did talk about Republicans engaging in the “politics of personal destruction” going back to the 90s.

Since the horrific shooting at the GOP baseball team’s practice yesterday––Steve Scalise is still in the hospital––there has been a lot of talk about calming down the over-heated political rhetoric in America.

In comments flagged by NBC News’ Alex Moe, Pelosi talked about the horrible, vile messages she’s received before making this observation:

< “Let’s all say let’s examine our conscience, let’s see how we can rid ourselves of our negative attitudes that go to a place that is like this. We’ve had––it didn’t used to be this way. Somewhere in the 90’s Republicans decided on the politics of personal destruction as they went after the Clintons.” >

more + video:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pelosi-on-the-state-of-political-discourse-in-the-90s-gop-decided-on-politics-of-personal-destruction/