evidence: When David DePape allegedly broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home on October 28 and violently attacked her 82-year-old husband, Paul, with a hammer, it followed a troubling trend of politically motivated violence. [...] We have this underlying belief that terrorism has to be a big Hollywood-style event. The problem is these smaller attacks, like the one on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, feed on each other. Followers of extremist groups maybe see it as successful and want to replicate it or see it as unsuccessful and want to "fix it."