Parkland blows open the politics of Trump’s gun silence
The Parkland massacre continued to hammer Trump-world on February 20, with students, gun-control advocates, and even nervous Republicans treating the White House’s response as weak, delayed, and politically bankrupt. The immediate issue was not just grief or rhetoric; it was that the administration still had no coherent answer for how to talk about guns after another mass shooting, and the vacuum left Trump’s allies taking incoming fire from every direction.
First recorded Feb 20, 2018·Meaningfully updated Feb 20, 2018
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Parkland blows open the politics of Trump’s gun silence
The Parkland massacre continued to hammer Trump-world on February 20, with students, gun-control advocates, and even nervous Republicans treating the White House’s response as weak, delayed, and politically bankrupt. The immediate issue was not just grief or rhetoric; it was that the administration still had no coherent answer for how to talk about guns after another mass shooting, and the vacuum left Trump’s allies taking incoming fire from every direction.
The Parkland massacre continued to hammer Trump-world on February 20, with students, gun-control advocates, and even nervous Republicans treating the White House’s response as weak, delayed, and politically bankrupt. The immediate issue was not just grief or rhetoric; it was that the administration still had no coherent answer for how to talk about guns after another mass shooting, and the vacuum left Trump’s allies…
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