The Wall Street Journal described the storming of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the assault on her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer on Friday - which fortunately did not exist at the time - as yet another sickening example of political violence in the deeply turbulent US culture. growing.
The newspaper pointed out that the right and left supporters denounced the attack as a "good thing", and hoped that another such attack would not be repeated in the future.
She suggested that the attacker - David Debaby - was apparently looking for Ms Pelosi, as he was shouting "Where's Nancy?", before attacking her 82-year-old husband.
It is the same phrase that The Washington Post editorial also noted as a strange echo of the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when rioters shouted, "Where are you, Nancy? We're looking for you."
And "Wall Street" indicated that the motives of the attacker were not clear at the time, but added that he appears to have been implicated, like many others, in conspiracy theories woven on the Internet, and that his background matches the resentful and perhaps mentally ill person who clings to Internet obsessions, some of which turn out to be political.
However, the newspaper believes that there is no easy solution to this problem, in which many of the likes of this man - who are teeming with the United States - target all political spectrums.
Whatever we know about the Pelosi attack, politicians, regardless of party, should condemn anything resembling political violence.
And she warned of the need to provide more security for public officials, because the increased risks will prevent many people from thinking about politics.
Police surround House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home after storming it (Getty)
The newspaper concluded that the risk of violence will increase as the elections approach and feelings are inflamed and with more people mistakenly believing that just one election will determine the fate of the country, adding that there is a lack of democratic tolerance these days, but everyone in public life must practice it.
For its part, the "Washington Post" described the attack as terrifying, and said that it raises a question that Americans have had to ask a lot in recent years: Can the most powerful country in the world protect its leaders and their families?
The newspaper believes that such incidents, threats and intimidation against politicians have continued to escalate amid the toxic rhetoric that comes to pass the political discourse, and against the background of a highly polarized scene.
She commented that whatever we know about the Pelosi attack, politicians, regardless of party, should condemn anything resembling political violence.
She hopes that lawmakers will turn their anger into action by clamping down on vitriol and considering new investments in security for themselves, their families and other leaders who seem to face more risks every day.