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.
What started as a trickle, Ken Griffin moving to FL, has turned into a flood. Billionaires moving out of CA and NY, Boeing moving from VA to MO, Apollo opening office in TX or FL. Jamie Dimon warning blue states. These companies are not sitting around waiting to see what happens, they see the handwriting on the wall with Newsom, Mandami, Spanberger, etc. Economic realities do not deter these blue states Democrats, nor do huge budget deficits. Raising taxes will do it.
Florida just added several new billionaires including both Google founders and Facebook CEO Zuckerberg, and quite a few others that are quiet under the radar. New York’s governor two weeks ago was begging NY’s billionaires to move back to NY. Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever.
Saw the reply of one NY billionaire to Hochul asking them to go back—“Hell no, we won’t go!”
People with large incomes create a lot of economic activity and the whole area benefits. Lots of jobs are created for the working class.
Buh Bye Taxistan. PPF your taxes are going WAY UP!! States Are Running a Tax Experiment and Red America Is Winning Taken together, these reports suggest that state tax policy now marks a sharper political and economic split. Americans move for many reasons, but the migration pattern favors states with lower costs and, in many cases, lighter tax burdens. Economist Charles Tiebout developed the idea later associated with “voting with your feet,” arguing that people reveal preferences not only through elections, but through mobility as well. By choosing where to live, they choose among different combinations of taxes and… Read more »
Ralphie Martire needs another box of Kleenex as he tearfully rues the departure of all that productivity that his political animal pals won’t be able to confiscate and skim. Boo hoo, Ralphie.
Ken Griffin made the best choice of his life.
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Sounds like Taxistan!!
When partisan gerrymanders and public-union machines entrench one-party Democratic governance, people who can’t affect political change at the ballot box vote with their feet. And they are taking their wallets and mutual funds with them.
California’s 2010 switch from party primaries to a top-two combined primary was promoted as a way to end partisanship. Which it did, by converting a two-party system into a one-party system. Voting with our feet is all that’s left.
Facts that Democrats, especially IL Democrats, ignore. Smart voters move, those that stay behind get what they asked for.