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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: The 80/20 problem

The Chicago Way

WGN Plus

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

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Chicago Way w/John Kass (06/09/25): Prof. Charles Lipson, the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago (whose writings can be found in the Spectator, Spectator World, The Telegraph, and more), is here to explain why Democrats keep ending up on the wrong side of ’80/20 problems’ and how American culture […]

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You see the black smoke in Los Angeles, the people angry, the SEAU Union and others who are

0:07.4

anti-Trump demanding that the immigration and naturalization forces don't carry out

0:15.6

federal law to boot illegal aliens from our country. They don't want federal law, and they're fighting for it.

0:23.4

And then you see the black smoke and the guys on motorcycles waving flags.

0:29.3

They're not American flags.

0:31.3

That's not the red, white, and blue.

0:33.4

That's the Mexican flag.

0:36.0

And that's all you have to see. That's what this is about. And where are we?

0:41.5

Is this an inflection moment where society realizes where we're going? Or is this a Bolshevik

0:48.5

moment where the unions stand in front of federal law to fight Trump as civil order breaks down?

0:57.5

Will it cost them anything? And the elections coming up? To talk about all this, we've got Charles

1:03.2

Lipson, our dear friend, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, author of many books

1:09.5

and articles. And you can find all his stuff at

1:12.2

Charles Lipson.com. Jeff Carlin is here. Jeff Carlin, executive producer WGN Radio is here,

1:18.8

and so am I, John Cass, 40 years columnist, newspaper man in Chicago, not always a columnist, but enough, trying to give you common sense,

1:31.1

a dose of common sense at least, when you subscribe to JohncastNews.com. And you, and where are you,

1:39.8

as all this is happening, you're out there watching. The riots in Los Angeles, the burning of

1:45.8

Oakland, the revisiting of the summer of love, and Ibrahimro Garcia, and the Supreme Court

1:54.2

is afraid. You're on the Chicago Way podcast on WGN Plus. So this is a guy who lives high on the hog, and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude

2:07.5

to power.

2:09.0

And it is, it's the Chicago Way, absolutely.

2:12.2

The Chicago Way is a deep cultural phenomenon.

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