Brandon Johnson turns to wild racism accusations to excuse his failures
Zachary Faria
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is losing control of his city, and he is losing his grasp of reality along with it.
In order to defend his job performance, Johnson has embraced the time-honored political tradition of blaming the last guy for all your problems. Johnson blamed the previous City Council for not budgeting “for 2023’s migrant mission.” Chicago, a “sanctuary city,” is now leaving illegal immigrants to live on the streets in the winter because it doesn’t have room for them. The city recently had to set aside another $150 million to try and keep up with this crisis as it stares down a budget shortfall of over $500 million next year.
“Not only have we stood up the full force of government in a collaborative way, we did it without the previous City Council even providing resources for it,” Johnson said.
But Johnson did not stop at this basic political tactic. The border crisis, and the busing of illegal immigrants to Chicago, has the city reeling, and so Johnson’s comments turned to deranged conspiracy theories. “Everyone knows that the right-wing extremism in this country has targeted democratically-run cities,” Johnson said. “It is abysmal and it is an affront for everything that is good about this country for the extremism in this country to use people as political tools to settle political scores for something that happened over 400 years ago.”
In conclusion, Johnson argued that Republicans are “still mad that a black man is free in this country.”
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Yes, Johnson thinks his city collapsing under the weight of the border crisis is because Republicans are mad about the end of slavery. Not because Chicago invited illegal immigrants to cross the border illegally by declaring itself a sanctuary city, flooding Texas and other border states and straining their resources to the point where they began sending those illegal immigrants to Chicago. No, Johnson thinks this is a grand racist conspiracy that has been fueled by 400 years of resentment (even though slavery ended just over 150 years ago).
The reality is that Johnson is just as bad at being mayor as he is at basic math. He continued the trend of inviting illegal immigrants to cross the border by keeping Chicago as a “sanctuary city,” only to realize that the city didn’t have the resources for it. Now, the crisis is bleeding taxpayers in his city and leaving people to sleep on the streets. Johnson’s ridiculous race-baiting doesn’t change the fact that this is his failure, and that he is the one running Chicago into the ground.