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.
Judge McGlynn, a federal judge, has ruled twice that the Pritzger gun registration scam is unconstitutional. Twice he has been overturned by liberal, democrat judges from the 7th circuit. All federal judges, and all see the law differently. States continue to pass new firearm restrictions that fly directly in contradiction to US Supreme Court decisions. The USSC is a toothless tiger as it has no power to sanction states that defy those decisions and states, all democrat controlled, continue to thumb their noses and cause chaos in the courts with non stop 2nd Amendment fights. As usual the justice system… Read more »
As I’ve said before, the ruling you get is mostly dependent upon which president appointed your judge. Years back, it used to be acceptable for a conservative president to appoint a liberal judge in a Democrat district, or vice-versa. The state’s senators would send back a ‘blue slip’ agreeing with a president’s recommendation. This practice has mostly gone away, as Obama, Biden and Trump have all tried to pack their court with their own partisan judges. In our 2-1 Seventh Circuit PICA gun grabber case, the Trump judge ruled against PICA, and the Obama or Biden judge, I can’t remember,… Read more »