Chicagoans cheered Mayor Lightfoot’s exit.
Gone was her toxic attitude. Her flippant dismissal of the city’s many crises. Her dismal record on crime. And her destruction of police morale.
She was an absolute failure by any measure.
From the beginning, she was more interested in imposing a progressive vision and an “equity” agenda on Chicago than enacting the many reforms the city needed.
So Chicagoans kicked out Lightfoot. Change was possible.
But what Chicagoans voted for on April 4 was someone more extreme and exactly opposite of what the city needed.
To reduce Chicago’s nation-high homicide rate, Chicago needed a new mayor willing to take on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s unwillingness to prosecute dangerous criminals. A mayor willing to challenge Judge Tim Evans’ decarcerationist agenda. A mayor willing to jam shut the system’s revolving door for criminals.
Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson won’t do any of that. Instead, look for him to embrace the policies of Foxx and Evans. In his own words, he’s for defunding the police and defends looting as “an outbreak of incredible frustration and anguish” tied to “a failed racist system.”
Gone to Hell because of Racist Lightfoot WHO should be arrested & sent to PRISON !!!!!!
Wasn’t there a song about that?
“The Night Chicago died”.
WHO voted for his agenda? Or did they, again, a day after the election, all of a sudden, find 25,000 ballots (All for Johnson) in a van parked behind a vacant building?
Just the number of people robbed, car-jacked, and/or beaten should have been enough to make him lose.
I’d also would have said “the number of people killed” in Chicago last year, but this year they all showed up and voted for Johnson.
Who thinks things are going to get better?
Look up “entropy”.
Keep cheering!
Chicagoans now have their very own reasons to chant “Let’s Go Brandon.”
Turned into a WAR ZONE !!!! Thank Democrats
Read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal this morning commenting that you “Can’t win voting with your feet”. The article was about Chicago and what was the cause of Mayor-elect Johnson’s win. Essentially, the “Right” has taken flight and has abandoned Chicago to the Black population and the ultra “Left”. Chicago is now and forever going to become a cesspool of decline and poverty. Just like many large metropolitan areas of this Country where business and industry, along with people with real world common sense have gotten the hell out of cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and New Orleans and soon New York, Atlanta, Houston, and Charlotte. Watch it happen.