Democrat activists, particularly those with cable TV platforms, berated Republicans on Monday for stoking the violence unleashed by a deranged, homeless nudist on Paul Pelosi, who is recovering from hammer blows to the head and body.

Not so fast, said Republican lawmakers Steve Scalise and Rand Paul, both of them badly injured at different times by people opposed to their conservative politics.

“I mean, there’s an eagerness on the left to make this political and immediately to start blaming Republicans, but where’s the sympathy, even from the left, for Paul Pelosi?” Sen. Rand Paul asked.

“I mean, I’m sure he is suffering today. He’s been through this horrific assault, and nobody’s really talking about him, because even the left is talking about making this political and blaming it on Republicans,” Paul told Fox News’s Jesse Waters on Monday night.