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.
Harvey will know it’s in dire financial straits when it has to turn over ownership of city hall to satisfy a lawsuit judgement against the town as payment as East St. Louis did when it couldn’t pay the family of a man beaten into a coma by other people in his jail holding cell.
The right answer is for start to allow municipal bankruptcy and then HELLO Chicago….
Harvey wants “fiscal relief via a state takeover of finances.” If they obtain it, what happens then? Does the State take on some of the municipal debt? Or does the State provide a direct subsidy for essential services? Or what?
They seriously need to just dissolve the town. The government there is actively dragging the town down, it would be better off unincorporated.