NATIONAL REVIEW
Brandon Johnson Wasn’t on the Ballot in Chicago, but Went Down in Flames on Tuesday Anyway
Jeffrey Blehar
November 8, 2024

Readers of National Review have become well familiar with Brandon Johnson’s reign of error as mayor of Chicago over the past year and a half, if for no other reason than I happen to live here — his ineptitude is part of my daily life. But the list of his achievements has been genuinely newsworthy — whether it’s axing ShotSpotter (and doing it so ineptly it cost the city millions of dollars), ridiculously calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza as the mayor of a midwestern American city, trying to introduce “slave reparations” into the Land of Lincoln, or blaming that SOB Nixon for 2024’s violent crime numbers — and even at times, properly history-making: Johnson is now the most unpopular mayor in the city’s 187 years of existence. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Paul Vallas: Chicago is what happens when antisemitism mixes with lawlessness Days after the Oct. 26 shooting of an Orthodox Jewish man in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson was publicly rebuked for issuing a perfunctory statement that made no mention of the victim’s background and didn’t demand the incident be treated by police as a hate crime. Anxiety among Chicago’s Jewish community has been aggravated by Johnson’s apparent insensitivity and indifference. Johnson’s behavior is illustrative of how America’s current antisemitism epidemic is colliding with the laissez-faire public safety policies nationwide.

* Paul Vallas is a former CEO of public school districts in Philadelphia and Chicago. He lost to Brandon Johnson in the last mayoral election.