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.
Next steps: repeal single-family zoning in Evanston and encourage multi-family arrangements. Attract more residents who deserve reparations to compensate for the sins of those who did what the laws permitted through the 1850’s. Attempts to override those laws generally failed so lots of American and Confederate lives were spent getting rid of slavery. Prejudice persisted and continued [via the KKK and James Crow] even after LBJ enacted JFK’s civil rights laws. We are still a far-from-perfect union. If Evanston residents really want to set things right, they should welcome and facilitate new residents plus vote for higher property taxes to… Read more »
Evanston politicians obviously believe in the concept of two wrongs make a right!
Hi want reparations ? Go to Africa and find the Black slave traders who sold black slaves and get your reparations from them !!
Someone needs to write a book on African slavery called the “1519 Project.” The results a book like that would not look good to anybody.
Mark my words, a leftist Democratic appointed appeals court judge will overturn this based on this judge’s ruling that because white people didn’t apply for it.
the achilles heel of leftist ,unintended consequences, they never learn…
Oh yeah. The great reparations wars have begun. Every nationality that came here was persecuted at some point. Now Evanston will have explain why one group should get it and no one else. That mayoral picture was taken before the ruling i bet