Politics and the media class
Maybe this article needs more of the transcript. Where did Johnson purport to “explain what happened in Uvalde”?
And it would be so easy to throw Cillizza’s low-quality reasoning right back at him. Here’s my rough rewrite in the style of Cillizza: The country is losing its foundational values, and Cillizza is falling back on a liberal hobbyhorse: That guns are to blame. You can debate the influence of guns on our culture, without presenting them as the entire explanation for what happened in Uvalde.
I mean, if the point is that Johnson is too knee-jerk ideological and crudely simplistic, well, so is Cillizza.
