The Chicago Center on Democracy’s Director Susan Stokes spoke on KNX radio in Los Angeles about the recent attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi. Her interview begins around minute 6:08: “We’re in a very violent period, a period of tremendous violent instincts, violent actions by citizens, sometimes encouraged, or at least not discouraged, by political leaders. And I don’t think I have to remind anybody that almost the definition of democracy is a system in which we use nonviolent means to resolve our conflicts…” Listen here.
On attacks on political leaders
