Greenberg: San Francisco’s Contribution to Reckless Rhetoric – California Globe

Greenberg: San Francisco’s Contribution to Reckless Rhetoric – California Globe

San Francisco’s reckless-mouthed political leaders Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Scott Wiener, David Chiu (and a gaggle of others) have long positioned themselves as the moral bulkhead, a wall against “right-wing extremism.” Yet, beneath this facade of virtue lies a troubling pattern of incendiary rhetoric that mirrors the very divisiveness they decry. By wielding words as weapons—demonizing opponents as fascists, nazis, bigots, white supremacists…