Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
Illinois Public Schools who stick to this approach are doomed to continue to train activists vs. educated thinking people. The current board members and teachers must be of an age to be those that have been taught to think that the United States is a bad place and only the US committed what are considered today to be atrocities. It is simply not true…When a little light research would show the history of society through the ages behaved similarly. The determination of whether it was good or bad is based on the times you evaluate the event. You can’t teach… Read more »
Your comment is well-written. To build on it, some part of every generation in our country looks with disdain on previous generations. Those people will be unpleasantly surprised to find that when they become a certain age, they’ll be the recipients of such disdain.
Also, what’s myopic is for some people to think that racism is unique or even predisposed to one race. Yes, studying world history would be eye-opening to such thinkers.
Illinois has statutory mandates for woke teacher training. Even if those are eliminated, woke education will remain among the most intractable problems we face because so many teachers are themselves radically woke and left.