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.
IL voters elected Pritzker and Johnson and I don’t hear any pushback from those voters when Pritzker and Johnson go anti Trump day after day. It’s noticeable that most of the fed cuts affect the blue part of IL-Chicago and Cook County, not the redder areas downstate. It’s the variety of social programs favored by the Democrats that get cut.
Keep poking the bear Braindead. Chicago gets bitten with less funds every time he opens his big mouth
It’s time for me to keep another age-old saying alive: don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
Along with learning from history, younger generations than mine should be aware of sayings that have survived the test of time.
Another reason why PBS correctly got defunded. Ok. I’ll fix it for you.
“It’s unfortunate that Mayor Cliff Notes has shown so much animus towards taxpayers. But he’s going to use every single tool that’s available to keep my friends and pals knee deep in confiscated taxpayer funds, to ensure that my friends and pals line their pockets courtesy of federal taxpayers.”
Illinois elects its dumbest, Chicago abuses the privilege, and the Useless Chicago Media enables them.
Johnson will be in a much stronger position to thwart the President’s agenda when North Michigan is bustling with bodegas, bait stores and used hub cap shops.