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.
The Bond Buyer keeps on swallowing JB the Hutt and Mayor Cliff Notes’ Kool Aid. Over the past couple of years, I read their report and ask: ‘what planet in Jen Shea on?’. or ‘Is she on the take from Illinois leftist Dems?’
Nothing out in Realville justifies any of The Bond Buyer’s ratings for Illinois and Chicago’s debt being so high except maybe to con chumbolones into buying these imprudently issued securities.
Not one tenth of one percent of people who hear about this understand what it means. It is bad news. It is in fact a downgrade going from “positive” to “stable”, just without the letter grade being downgraded right now. And the alderman correctly stated that the City is expecting a downgrade next. And don’t forget, Moody’s is paid by the City, so you don’t think Moody’s is sensitive to the political bad news for their client who is paying them?