April 28, 2025
Illinois Governor Pritzker’s not-very-subtle encouragement of political violence
By
Andrea Widburg
Honest people understand that what happened on January 6, 2021, was not an “insurrection,” but was, instead, a protest that got out of hand (and, perhaps, was helped to get out of hand by
shadowy activists whom the FBI never pursued). Now, though, it appears that the Democrats really do want a genuine, violent, deadly revolution against Donald Trump. How else can one explain Illinois governor JB Pritzker’s call for mass, in-your-face protests against Trump and Republicans, generally, whom he calls “tyrants,” to prove his bona fides to be America’s next president?
Pritzker is an interesting man because he’s like the “Bad Trump.” You know, he’s what Trump would be if he were in
Superman’s Bizarro World, where evil is elevated and good destroyed. Like Trump, he’s a billionaire who was born to wealth (much greater wealth than Trump’s) and then augmented that wealth through his own efforts. Both were elected as populists, Trump going to the White House and Pritzker going to Illinois’s governor’s office.
However, the similarities end there. Trump is a genuine populist because his policies appeal to America’s beleaguered working and middle classes. He promises that he will end job competition from illegal immigrants and unfair trade practices (especially from China), clean up criminally overrun cities, tamp down on a bloated and corrupt federal government, stop focusing obsessively on race, and protect children from perverted sexual predations.
