The real reason Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is working hard to resist Trump

Donald Trump's re-election as US president promises big changes in the coming new year. But some politicians have chosen to resist Trump and his administration. They often make this claim because they believe they are more moral, virtuous, and humane than the next president. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is one of them.

The morning after the election, after campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris in North Carolina, Mr. Johnson released a public statement from the mayor's office, saying, “Our next president will be the most vulnerable and marginalized in our society.'' He made direct threats against people in the area.” ”

He added: “Chicagoans can be confident that they have a mayor who will not back down when it comes to defending our city, our values, and our neighbors. When it comes to fighting back against hate of any kind. We will never give up,” he added. I wince. ”

Brandon Johnson, the great moralist who will save us all.

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Only if that was even remotely true.

The reality is that Johnson has influence over too many of us Chicagoans. Because of people like him, I asked Americans to help me raise money to build an Economic and Leadership Opportunity Center on Chicago's South Side. I haven't received many good words from him.

This is not surprising, since this person has not contributed much to public school education. At the elementary school next to my block, very few children read or do math at grade level. Why doesn't Johnson, a former teacher, care about these kids? Where is the morality in sending kids to school in name only?

In the end, it turned out he was too busy launching a campaign to shut down CPS selective admissions schools, some of Chicago's highest-performing high schools. Many black children, including children in my neighborhood, fled to these schools to escape failing schools. Now, Johnson wanted to close these schools because it was unfair to black children who were stuck in low-performing schools. You can't make this up.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to backtrack on the issue for now comes after public backlash and opposition from several senior government officials.

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I couldn't help but notice the irony when Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed to be a champion of the migrants who have moved into the city in droves. “We're going to protect the people of this city because…President Trump, his threats are not just to new arrivals and undocumented immigrant families,” Mayor Johnson said. “His threats are also against black families.”

How will he protect black families as schools threaten to close? And how will he protect Black families when he lets immigrants into the city without any screening and then allocates millions of dollars to them?

At a recent City Council meeting, a woman wearing a “Chicago Flips Red” shirt called out Mr. Johnson for appointing a deputy mayor for “immigrant, migrant, and refugee rights” and spending liberally on these people. “He will be held accountable,” he said. That's not fun because the city is in debt.

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Another speaker at the same conference said, “We're going to talk about this budget and the weird things that are happening right now, because, again, this executive order of May 2023, Immigrants, Immigrants, Refugee Rights. Because your name is on this executive order regarding. You caused the cause.” All this money goes to illegal immigration. ”

Yet another said, “No one appointed a monarch to rule the people of Chicago.”

Mayor Johnson's reaction? “Sergeant, remove these people from the room.”

Mr Johnson has appointed so many people to his government that the public no longer knows exactly who is responsible for what. All we know is that too many of them account for six people, and clearly enough of them are people of colour, that Johnson has the most diverse government in history. It just means you can be proud of yourself.

He may have it, but is he really a moral man who cares about his people? Or is he an ideologue using his resistance to Trump as a shield against his failures as mayor? I strongly believe the latter. Johnson is no friend of the city of Chicago. He is not a friend of the people. He's a friend of old Chicago corruption, institutional corruption.

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That's why we must take his resistance to Trump as a self-serving moralistic display. He is a minority government governing against our interests for a better Chicago.

That's why, in this coming new year, I'm determined to continue the fight for a better Chicago from my little corner of the city. Trump may be president, but he is nothing without our people. That's why we must resist Brandon Johnson in the city.

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