Lori Lightfoot’s next dancing TikTok video should be to “Bye Bye Bye”
Christopher Tremoglie
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her reelection bid in humiliating fashion on Tuesday, obtaining only 17.1% of the vote and finishing in third place. She is the first incumbent Chicago mayor to lose reelection in 40 years, as many voters blamed her for the city’s surge in violence. Many questioned her gravitas and overall effectiveness as mayor, especially when she posted dancing videos on TikTok. She seemingly did nothing to address the city’s record-breaking homicides and other violent crimes.
Given her penchant for TikTok performances, and after her resounding defeat on Tuesday, it only makes sense her next video should be to “Bye Bye Bye,” NSYNC’s famous song from 2000. Given the message Chicago voters sent to her on Tuesday, it would be appropriate.
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I am obviously being facetious, but such a performance would be less silly than the reasons Lightfoot offered for her defeat: her race and gender.
When asked why she thinks she lost the election, Lightfoot said it was from her being a black woman in the country. It’s a stupid, illogical thing to say, but playing the race and gender card has become routine for Democrats after political losses.
“I’m a black woman in America. Of course,” Lightfoot responded when asked if she was mistreated during the election.
And while such a response is as ridiculous as the idea of Lightfoot dancing to NSYNC, it is also indicative of why Lightfoot failed to win reelection. The people elected her to help make Chicago better. Instead, the city arguably became much worse during her tenure. Violent crime rates exploded during her tenure and multiple large corporations relocated from the Windy City. Additionally, Chicago’s poverty rate is approximately a third higher than the national average.
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Furthermore, she embraced horrible criminal justice policies that decimated her city, enabled left-wing mobs to create chaos and destruction throughout Chicago, and repeatedly demonstrated she was unproductive in her capacity as mayor. Those reasons, not her race or gender, are why she lost.
From unquestionably believing the not-even-close-to-plausible Jussie Smollett hoax when it first happened to her calling for a police officer who “flipped off a protester” to be fired, to prioritizing the removal of Christopher Columbus monuments over solving the city’s violent crime crisis, Lightfoot’s radical, left-wing politics came back to haunt her. Voters grew tired of Lori Lightfoot’s politics, not her race or gender. After all, the voters elected her mayor as a black woman in America. They also held her accountable for being a lousy mayor and ultimately told her “Bye Bye Bye.”