Moral Crisis or Moral Panic?

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🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Today's podcast discusses how we should view the Texas school massacre and to what extent the actions of its perpetrator serve as an indictment of American society and American policy. Then, what did Tuesday's primary results say about Donald Trump's hold on the GOP? Give a listen.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:26.7	Today is Wednesday, May 25, 2022. I'm John Poghord. It's the editor of Commentary
0:31.6	Magazine with me as always executive editor.
0:34.1	A Greenwald Hype.
0:35.2	Hi John.
0:36.2	Senior writer Christine Rosem Hykristine.
0:38.4	Hi John.
0:39.4	An associate editor Noah Rothman Hynoah.
0:42.0	Hey John.
0:44.0	One hates to begin any discussion with a discussion of a massacre of children and yet we
0:55.3	must do so 18 year old gunman in a town in southern Texas with having a shot and maybe
1:10.5	killed his grandmother moments before crashes his car puts on body armor.
1:18.2	Somehow evades efforts to intercept him before he goes into the school building probably
1:25.9	because of the body armor from armed officers gets in and I guess the death toll is now
1:33.8	up to 21.
1:38.7	And we are about to start we have already started a cycle of recrimination and efforts to
1:51.6	make political hay out of this uniquely horrible American fetish toward mass killing
2:05.6	particularly in and around schools.
2:10.6	I think the striking thing is to hear and watch people notably Barack Obama say things
2:19.9	like and this is a quote from Obama it's long past time for action any kind of action.
2:30.7	What does that mean because it was echoed I mean people a bunch of people said we have
2:35.5	to do something I don't care what it is we have to do something.
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