[Hat tip: commenter Geoffrey Britain.]

He’s talking about gun control, but it’s a primer on how to talk about heated issues in general:

Freitas bears watching. When I say that he gave a primer on how to talk about these issues, I certainly don’t mean that a productive talk ensued. In fact, a few Democrats walked out and accused him of—you guessed it—racism.

By the way, the pundits were wrong about Texas this time. I’ve always been reluctant to make political predictions, although every now and then I’ve gone out on a limb to do so. But it’s only become more difficult to make them, not easier, and the polls—always iffy in terms of predictive value—have become more and more discredited in my eyes.