Posted on 09/07/2018 7:38:26 AM PDT by PBRCat
Rahm Emanuel ducked out of City Hall alone on Tuesday, his usual security detail walking slightly ahead of him.
Across the street at Daley Plaza, 150 activists had gathered to celebrate his vanquishing at an event called "Celebrate the End of Rahm Emanuel’s Reign of Terror". . .
The calm, matter-of-fact way that Rahm's rule is coming to an ending is shocking—particularly so if you compare it to the mood of eight years ago. In 2010, Obama's former chief of staff returned to Chicago from the White House poised as a conquering hero ready to assume his rightful place on the throne.
But those paying close attention have noticed how the cracks in the foundation of Emanuel's personal kingdom have grown into chasms. And more broadly, we're seeing symptoms of the creeping national decline of a kind of technocratic centrism practiced by the Clinton and Obama machine over the last 25 years. Rahm has served as neoliberalism's Machiavelli over that time, perfecting a cynical "Just win, baby" philosophy that meant making the Democratic Party rain with Wall Street cash, whipping up fear about your opponent, and then campaigning (and governing) slightly to the left.
Emanuel's many high-powered capitalist friends claimed that the mayor had more than a puncher's chance of reelection. [M]ultiple polls conducted earlier in the year for mayoral hopefuls. . . weren't so rosy for Rahm. McCarthy's numbers had Emanuel's job performance rating at just 32 percent, and Lightfoot's showed that just 31 percent of 800 Chicago voters said they would vote to reelect him. Sixty-two percent of those voters said they wanted anybody but Rahm in 2019. Those are numbers that don't bode well for someone whom David Axelrod—one of the mayor's closest friends—once described as a "heat-seeking missile" for his ability to win elections.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagoreader.com ...
“Chicago dominates the state. Its the only reason Hillary won there in 2016. Downstate IL is heavily GOP.”
True that.
Is Rahm Emanuel going to run for President? Turn the whole country into a Chicago hellhole?
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