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.
Rahm. Forget it. You sucked here with only Chicagoans knowing it. The limelight will expose how worthless you were as a mayor and how bad you’d be as a president
Every Democrat fails upward. Every single one.
Did he solve Chicago’s education problems? No.
Did he solve Chicago’s fiscal problems? No.
Did he solve Chicago’s crime problems? No..
He didn’t even lay the groundwork to solve them in the future.
So why did he even run for mayor if he didn’t intend to solve these problems?
He really can’t read the room.
No one who’s only a talker and not a doer can be elected President.
He’s only taken somewhat seriously because he’s not a Marxist like all the other Dems.
Oh, please. One slew of commercials detailing the LaQuan McDonald fiasco and the Tiny Dancer will be back to pulling the levers behind the curtain.
BS. He already knows the answers to those questions and he has the titanium pair to do it. What he doesn’t know yet is how well he can fundraise and fare against whomever else jumps in. Meantime, keep the name out there, talk a sensible game in an insane world and see what happens. He’s no dummy.
Rahm’s brother is a high powered Hollywood agent who could get the Clooneys & Streisands of the world to support his “common sense”/non Leftist Democrat approach.
Rahm is a Clintonista and former head of the DNCC. He could pull together a credible Presidential Campaign at the drop of a hat.
Rahm is not stupid. I would guess he is keenly aware that today there are more independents than Dems or Republicans, and that he could play to the independents. Still, getting through the Dem primary, which is dominated by radicals, would be tough.