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.
Fear not, everything the progressive does fails, and absent further electoral cheating, or installing a dictatorship, they will fail and the pendulum will swing back the other way in a very harsh manner. I just hope we don’t end up in gulags before the pendulum swings back.
If you want to stop gun violence in Chicago and Cook County, you need to be willing to put offenders behind bars. JB and Kim Foxx have pledged to empty the prisons, so how is this going to work? Anything JB says is simply lip service. He doesn’t want to jail his base. Step aside and let the adults handle it Jelly Bean. You are nothing but a wannabe. All you have is daddy’s money in a size 62 short suit.
Pritzker is following a very dangerous path.
Progressives are already defining dissent from their political agenda as “extremism” and declared it dangerous. Now, they are attempting to redefine criminal behavior as a public health emergency.
How long before they declare “extremism” (political dissent) a public health emergency, requiring total executive control? They are already saying it is the biggest terrorist threat the U.S. faces.
The legislature and courts cannot allow the executive to claim emergency power based on criminal behavior. That will push us over the cliff.
For the sake of argument, let’s say that you eliminate all guns in the city. You know the violence between the gangs is not going to stop. So you would think that the next weapon of choice would be knives. What then? Eliminate knives? Maybe baseball bats? Just think of all the tax money that can be made by taxing deadly kitchen utensils! That money could then be “reinvested” in the ‘hood. Midnight basketball anyone?
Everything thats wrong has turned into a health crisis.
Lard Boy is a walking health crisis and would not know what a real health crisis is if it was in from of him.
Give us free stuff or else we’ll continue shooting each other over petty gang disputes. What a compelling argument