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.
Cook County/Chicago provide all the votes necessary to elect any democrap in any statewide or national, election. They really dont need much more when democraps pull 90% of the vote. Generally statewide 90 to 95 of 102 counties are majority red.
Bingo
Did Bette Midler write this article? The article portrays downstaters as unvaxxed rubes who only care about abortion and guns….which is so rich, and ironic, because it was the DEMOCRATS that are so obsessed with abortion that they passed the most vile baby murdering laws in the country. But WBEZ says that Republicans are obsessed with abortion. This $ h it is so difficult to read. I know WBEZ’s audience, but this isn’t journalism, it is fake news designed to reinforce the progressives’ world view. It’s only a matter of time before the progressives demand downstaters are put into camps… Read more »
None of this really matters anymore with drop-box voting.
Glen should have been Governor but was subverted by his own party.