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 Catholics have a pope that has basically denied the Divinity of Christ, embraced global communism, and worldwide government.
It comes as a shock that their lower institutions would embrace the ideology he’s been pushing?
There’s something about him in the Book of Revelation.
Most of the Catholic schools here have long deviated from Catholic doctrine to embrace mainstreamed alternate lifestyles, no matter how provocative for young minds, or whether contrary to their parents’ own more conservative beliefs and traditional Catholic canon. One prominent Catholic Jesuit high school here in Chicago employed for many years a teacher who was long-time “out” gay activist who owned a very prominent far north-side S&M bar complex, including a S&M B&B (yes, you read that right) for its clientele. Its web-site was “eye-opener”, celebrating a life-style in obvious contradiction to Catholic doctrine. Easily confirmed by quick “Windy City… Read more »
Cupich–End of story
Always the Jesuits. Avoid their institutions.
Disagree.
The strategy being used is divide and conquer.