Pelosi's Democrats against democracy

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Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is retiring after nearly 40 years in Congress, and instead of becoming a lobbyist like most of her predecessors, she will be going to academia. Specifically, she’ll be co-teaching a course on Congress at the University of California, Berkeley, as part of a new program on U.S. government.