We should establish a new rule in our politics: When you know a candidate’s immense flaws, yet choose to endorse him or her anyway, you don’t get to piggyback when the tides turn—at least not without owning up to a major miscalculation.
I only wish our vinyl record player could’ve scratched when I clicked on that headline.
To be fair, the original endorsement wasn’t without clear hesitation, as the Tribune cited his administration’s achievements with a lot (and I do mean a lot) of hedging.
To be fair though, McQueary and the Tribune editorial board aren’t the only ones who deserve a collective side-eye from Chicagoans tired of the mess at City Hall.
Every influential leader and organization that got behind Emanuel now needs to take serious stock of how they’ve enabled his divisive regime to continue, and how playing establishment politics comes at expense of the issues—and people—that matter.
