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.
Among his other harmful proposals, Mamdani wants to spend 65 million dollars on “gender affirming care.” Mamdani disguises himself as a Democrat but in reality he hates America and wants to destroy it from within. The young free stuff army that voted him in disregard or are ignorant of history. Communism doesn’t work. Rent control doesn’t work. His soft-on-crime policies will destroy New York. (Houston is already asking NYPD officers if they would like to come to their city where they will be respected.) Mamdani’s fan base seem to have forgotten September 11th–Mamdani told a weird story about a mythical… Read more »