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.
Leave it to people on a par with Gates/ Johnson when it comes to financial wizardry to invest in risky markets that when they go belly up, the chump investors have no recourse or chance of recovery. A person that fancied himself a wolf of Wall Street once tried to sell me Iraqi money futures reasoning that when the US took that country over, they would increase in value exponentially. Needless to say, he went bust and couldn’t do anything about it.
$2B investment in China seems kind of risky when the companies right here in the USA are doing just fine. The NY Post listed several “investment opportunities” made by Hunter in China. I wonder if the union sought his advice and invested in Postal Savings Bank, China Investment Corp, Founder Group, Thornton Group, Bohai Harvest and Bohai Capital, Lion Hall Group, Hudson West or World Food Program USA.
Would be a coincidence for sure.
It is worth noting that the Illinois Teachers Retirement System is different from the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund. Although both funds understand that investing in their own product, the employability of the scholars they currently produce, is a waste of money.
More proof that this country has lost its way.
Should invest in Chicago bonds, they pay above average interest rate. Wonder why they do not invest in Illinois.