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 budget has risen over 30% under Pritzker and now that’s Trumps problem. Illinois takes about $18 billion more per year from taxpayers, a 51% increase in general fund revenues, and now it’s Trumps problem. The people defending this state are imo idiots.
There an easy fix. Il to release records for voter rolls and programs that use federal money. Won’t happen because IL trying to cover fraud.
Illinois is on the top of the list of states that rightly deserve federal funding cuts.
We expect the DNC cheerleaders at Crain’s to rally behind their Dem pals and their out-of-control spending addictions and stenographer John Schroyer stepped right up. Johnny typed the litany of skim-ready confiscated taxpayer cash piles clawed back by the first fiscally responsible administration in more than a century of Washington politics. Illinois political animals are addicted to spending and for decades their pals in Washington sent trainloads of confiscated taxpayer funds for outrageously expensive projects benefiting primarily Illinois political animal friends and family. Confiscated taxpayer funds routinely got appropriated for some noble-sounding project only to have the costs of said… Read more »
Crain’s truly useless, except to line the bottom of
bird cages. Now can’t use it for that.
The world would be better off if they go away!