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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: New Year, same old problems

The Chicago Way

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News & Politics, News, Columnist, Politics, Carlin, Plus, Wgn, Jeff, Tribune, John, Chicago, The, Kass, Radio, Way

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (01/01/24): To close out 2023, friend of the show Charles Lipson (the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago) joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin to discuss Charles’ piece in RealClearPolitics about Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ‘Hat Trick of Dreadful Policies’ and what that means […]

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0:00.0

In a tower by the river, there lived a man.

0:04.0

There was a man who took a stand,

0:10.0

with pen and paper in his hand, defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword.

0:20.0

No escape from his ink lasso in a tower by the river, Castle.

0:27.0

Here's how you get him.

0:28.0

He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, you send to one of yours to the hospital, you say,

0:32.0

one of hiss to the morgue.

0:33.4

That's the shanpackle.

0:35.0

It's the end of the year and all the wheels are falling off Mayor Johnson's bus.

0:46.1

And to discuss that and the nature of the stories

0:49.7

that will be interested in as the West is under attack as Trump runs for re-election and as

0:59.6

the media seems to try to protect Mayor Johnson.

1:06.2

We have with us Charles Lipsen,

1:08.8

Professor Emeritus, Ritzma Professor

1:11.3

at the University of Chicago, our friend who wrote an excellent piece,

1:17.0

the Chicago Mayor's Hat Trick of Dreadful Policies. And I would suggest it's a hat trick for three heads because he's

1:27.2

become something of the three-headed monster. You know what strikes me John?

1:33.0

Yes Charles.

1:34.0

Is that I've talked to a number of people who, you know, friends who are, I would say moderate

1:40.1

progressives or, you know, further left than that who supported Johnson and

1:45.4

almost all of them have gotten off that bus they think he's a failure and

1:51.6

that's not because he has changed from his left his

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