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.
If you have to receive the last receivable to make the next payable, that’s the definition of a Ponzi scheme. You are building no equity as people are living longer, no way this works.
The pensions are so expensive that they are unsustainable at today’s levels. The taxpayer cannot afford to pay for them. Higher and higher taxes just chase out more upper income earners and job creators to other states. This is a death debt spiral that will not end well for anyone. Pensions are a form of economic cancer.