Chicago- March 06, 2025
Chicago’s former mayor made headlines Monday with continued criticism of his own party.
What he has been doing is making the rounds, sitting for a series of podcast and TV interviews where he’s criticized failures of the Democratic Party.
“If you had told me in 2008, let alone 1996 or 1992 that Silicon Valley would have walked away from a Democratic nominee, I would have said, ‘Impossible. That’s what happened? Urban America. Impossible. It’s what happened?’” Emanuel said. “Politics is addition, not subtraction, and we’ve been doing subtraction really well.”
“Over the last 30 years, both the political and economic establishment system – and we’re all part of it. I’m part of it – we have failed the American people and they’re pissed off and guess what? They’ve earned the right to be pissed off at all of us,” Emanuel said.
As he battles the left, Emanuel is trying to re-shift his party’s focus to classroom issues.
“We’re having a debate about pronouns right now. What if you have two-thirds of your kids who don’t know what a pronoun is?” Emanuel said. “You just had the worst reading scores in 30 years, worst math scores in 30 years, and we’re talking about bathrooms and locker rooms…you don’t get a do-over in education, you’re here in this room because you have a good education. I don’t know all of you. Your kids have a good education.”
