In my attempt to cheer up all the progressives crying at the sight of J.B. Pritzker proclaiming victory after Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary, let me say one thing.
On that night I happened to be in the Reader’s old newsroom. It was almost surreal, listening to various editors, moaning, groaning and cursing as they watched one swing state after another—Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania—swing the wrong way.
They put on their “big-boy pants” and voted for the billionaire.
When I think about it, the Republicans were also being pragmatic. State rep Jeanne Ives—Rauner’s opponent—was to them what Harold Washington was to me. The champion of their every issue.
