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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used a commencement address to bizarrely compare Lincoln’s fight to save the Union to the left’s never-ending quest to rescue “democracy” from President Trump.
Pelosi, one of a parade of lefties dominating the graduation speaker circuit this season, used part of her 20 minutes on stage May 2 at California’s Notre Dame De Namur University’s graduation ceremony to give the crowd a revisionist history lesson.
“Our founders believed that they could establish a democracy because they believed in the goodness of the American people,” she told the roughly 300 graduates.
“Because each generation has a responsibility to build a future better than the one before. Healthier planet, fair economy, safer security, and a stronger democracy. You graduates today, you give us hope.”
She referenced the words of one of the America’s Founding Fathers, writer Thomas Paine, from his pamphlet “Common Sense”: “The times have found us.”
“The times found them to declare independence to win a war against the greatest naval power of the time,” Pelosi said.
She moved on to the Constitution, saying “it wasn’t perfect because it was a compromise, but it was smart enough to be amended.”
“The abolition of slavery, black men having the right to vote, women finally having the right to vote, all the other freedoms that have been traced to privacy and the Constitution, the president of the court, all making us freer,” the 86-year-old Democrat continued.
“But there’s some challenges now and that’s what you must be ready for,” she warned.
“The times found Abraham Lincoln to save our democracy to save our union and the times have found us now to save our democracy.”
Meaghan Mobbs, the director of the Center for American Safety and Security at the conservative nonprofit policy group Independent Women, ripped Pelosi’s radical call-to-action.
“Nancy Pelosi’s speech reflects a dangerous trend in American politics: treating ordinary democratic disagreement as an existential battle for the survival of the republic,” she told The Post.
“When senior political leaders compare political opponents to threats on the scale of the Civil War or the collapse of democracy, they help fuel the paranoia, rage, and moral absolutism that have contributed to a surge in left-wing radicalization and political violence.
“This kind of rhetoric is irresponsible, inflammatory, and profoundly corrosive to civic stability.”
Last year, Dems or other left voices outnumbered Republicans and ring-winged figures five-to-one as commencement speakers, according to The College Fix.
The trend appears to be continuing this year.
Out of the top 20 schools ranked by US News & World Report, at least 10 commencement speakers in 2026 are left leaning — along with a host of lower ranked institutions.
Jane Fonda, an outspoken critic of Trump and Israel, was set to take the stage June 4 at NYC’s Hunter College.
Woke playwright Taylor Mac, a self-described “radical, liberal queer,” was expected to address the city’s New School on May 18.
Trump-hating historian Michael Beschloss was invited to speak at the University of Pennsylvania on the same day.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D- MD) who led Trump’s second impeachment trial, was scheduled be in DC May 17 addressing American University’s Washington College of Law’s graduating class.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) who has also called for Trump’s impeachment, was slated to speak the same day at Boston’s Suffolk University College of Arts & Sciences.
“Many university administrations are unable to perceive the political one sidedness of their commencement speakers,” said Heather MacDonald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
“They exist in an ideological bubble — confident that enlightened, rational people must, of course, share their worldview. The conclusion of a college career ends the same way that it begins: in a political monoculture.”
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