Bush dismissed Cruz's talk as simplistic ("carpet bombing isn't a strategy," he noted) and detailed the steps he would take: insure the Kurdish militia was sufficiently armed, the Iraqi military better trained, local Sunni leaders engaged, and a no-fly zone established.
Sarah Palin, with her reliance on spouting talking points, simplistic approach to issues and complete lack of experience beyond a half term as governor of a state the size of Columbus, Ohio, is not competent to be discussing North Korea.
He would have bristled at any simplistic talk about the "radicalization" of the Irish Catholic or Protestant communities.
There is a serious debate going on about the future of humanitarian interventions, but the left have almost completely absented themselves from it, preferring to talk instead in simplistic slogans.
Taken at face value, however, Mr. Bush's words would put him closer to the positions of the United States' European allies, who have considered Mr. Bush's talk of victory simplistic and unhelpful.
But of course the stakes are high, and millions of Americans who follow political news as entertainment could end up believing simplistic talking points or even outright misinformation.
You hear people talking in rather simplistic terms about 'productive' jobs being done by machines and humans becoming focused on 'entertainment'entertainment
We should stop talking about the simplistic and reductive "end of men" and start having substantive conversations about "transforming masculinity" so that extreme violence, inherent to patriarchal systems, isn't understood to be an essential part of it.
It's not Trump's conservative bona fides that made him the Republican frontrunner; it's because he voiced his rage in the kind of simplistic AM talk radio jargon the GOP base has longed to hear a candidate express.
But when there is a unified campaign of rape and hundreds of women are attacked in one vicious swoop as their supposed protectors sit helplessly by a few miles away, then it is much too simplistic to talk about rape solely in terms of individual men and women.
