But perhaps sensing the inadequacy of that answer, Emanuel later said, “It’s not about crime. It’s about values. As I said [when Sutton was shot and killed last month], who raised you? How were you raised? And I don’t buy this case where people say they don’t have values. They do have values. They have the wrong values.”

Rahm’s right – it is about values. But what he and other liberals seem not to understand is that in many ways the gangbangers are products of the values promoted by cultural liberalism.