“We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes. And people mocked President Johnson, and we ended up with Richard Nixon,” Johnson lectured the press after the shootings.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson placed the blame for the city’s gun violence problem on President Richard Nixon, who died in 1994. AP
He declined to elaborate further — likely because the idea’s so insane not even a neo-Soviet like Johnson can sell it with a straight face.
“Root causes,” though, remain a favorite bogey of Johnson and the larger left when it comes to violent crime — he demanded fed funds to address them at the same whacked-out presser, citing poverty as the cause of the violence while speaking of vague plans to “transform” the Windy City.
No: Going hat in hand to the feds is not the answer to 109 shooting victims and 19 fatalities, including several kids.
A police officer works at the scene where a 47-year-old man and a 39-year-old man were shot on the 2400 block of West Monroe Street on July 7, 2024, in Chicago. TNS
Illinois was the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail; Chicago, under the thumb of retiring Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx — pre-eminent even among the pro-crime left — saw thugs and killers run wild as Foxx stood down in the name of “equity.”
And Johnson himself is a police defunder from way back, an ultra-leftist who’s already done massive damage just during his brief tenure.
The worst part?
Johnson himself knows he’s telling lies — saying even as he blathered about injustice that “this is a choice. It’s a choice to kill . . . . There will be consequences for the violence.”
We’ll believe it when we see it; just as with the shootings, the current decay of Chicago is a choice.
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