Dave Rubin did the country a favor by sharing the clip of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson doubling down on the now-familiar left-wing playbook: blame law enforcement and prisons while crime runs rampant in the streets. In the footage Johnson dismisses incarceration as a solution, calling jails and police a “sickness” and insisting that locking up criminals is immoral and racist — an argument that sounds less like policy and more like a shrug toward victims.
This is not a harmless academic debate — these are the words of a man who runs America’s third-largest city while neighborhoods burn and ordinary citizens fear for their families. Conservatives have watched for years as soft-on-crime Democrats preach compassion from ivory towers while endorsing policies that gut accountability; Johnson’s sermon against incarceration is simply the latest expression of that dangerous, out-of-touch arrogance.
Johnson’s rhetoric about prisons being “unholy” and ineffective flies in the face of historic lessons about public safety and incapacitation. The inconvenient truth for progressive politicians is that putting violent repeat offenders behind bars has been one of the most effective tools for protecting law-abiding citizens, and pretending otherwise is political theater while real people pay the price.
The mayor also tried to shift blame outward, pointing fingers at gun traffickers in other states and federal policy rather than owning failures at home. It’s a convenient dodge to blame red states or distant policies when the people of Chicago are asking for leadership that prioritizes victims over ideology and restores real deterrence and consequences.
Dave Rubin doing what honest journalists should do — spotlight political hypocrisy — is why conservative media matters. The clip he ran cuts through the spin and shows Johnson’s priorities plainly: more talk about systemic causes, less will to secure streets, and a dismissive posture toward the institutions that protect citizens. That’s why ordinary Americans tune in to outlets willing to call out this nonsense.
If we’re serious about rebuilding safe communities, we need mayors who back the blue, fund prosecutors and courts that enforce the law, and rebuild prison systems to keep violent criminals off the streets. Throwing money at endless studies and feel-good programs while vilifying incarceration is not courage — it’s an abdication of responsibility by political elites who would rather virtue-signal than govern.
Patriotic Americans should demand better: hold leaders accountable, vote for candidates who believe in law and order, and refuse to accept the hollow moralizing that equates public safety with oppression. The residents of Chicago deserve politicians who will stand with victims, not with the criminal class or with the ideological excuses that let crime flourish.
