Bringing it back to the actual topic. It's absolutely wild how the far right creates, spreads and then weaponizes misinformation and conspiracy theory to create this environment where political violence happens.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/pelosi-attack-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-invs/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/donald-trump-paul-pelosi-reaction/index.html
Despite the lack of evidence, it took less than 24 hours after the attack for the “gay lover” theory to take root in right-wing social media circles. There have been at least 19,000 tweets mentioning the words “Pelosi” and “gay” since the day of the attack, garnering a total of more than 700,000 likes, according to a CNN analysis – and that doesn’t include tweets referencing the theory without those words, or tweets that have since been deleted.
Think about that. Less than 1 day after a man attacks the husband of Nancy Pelosi, the right has ginned up and supported a fake and disgusting hoax and had the former President of the USA give it some level of credence. I don't know how the USA backs itself out of this dangerous corner where such a large group is brainwashed and goose-stepping in sync with the Fox/Breitbart/OAN/alt-rightTwitter propaganda train. The historical parallels to the Nazis are striking.