Gunfighter Nation

Political Junkie Podcast · Jun 21, 2025 · 1h 3m · transcript

We begin with a response to last Saturday’s attacks on Minnesota State legislators and their families from Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, as well as her comment about Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee’s ugly social media posts.

Our title is a nod to Richard Slotkin’s classic text on America’s historical embrace of violence, Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (Atheneum, 1992).

News roundup:

* On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court delivered an unsurprising, distressing, decision in United States v. Skrmetti. In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS…