Unfortunately, he’s a pathetically typical Illinois Republican. We’ve been playing footsy with left so long we are them. As a party, that is. Kind of a large scale version of the Stockholm Syndrome.
Well, the Illinois Republican Party knows it has two choices: pander to collar county RINOs and be willing to compromise on anything and everything, or permanently lose control over every aspect of state government. For politicians, knowing what their priorities are, that isn’t a choice at all.