People laughed when I told them that whoever replaced Mayor Lori Lightfoot would be ten times worse. They have trouble believing that whoever replaces Mayor Eric Adams in New York City will be a thousand times worse. But at least when it comes to Chicago, seeing and hearing is believing.

Mayor Brandon Johnson, with an approval rating lower than Al Capone’s, fresh off ensuring a pro-Hamas resolution, replied to a question about the border crisis by explaining that he’s a very busy man.

“Do you understand, you have not had a mayor like me? I get that!”

Chicago has never had a mayor like Mayor Johnson who is running the city into the ground while raising three black kids with a black wife.

There are mayors all over the country, black and white who are raising kids while doing their jobs, but the whole point of identity politics is being able to act like a victim all the time. Johnson stops short of shouting about “unpaid emotional labor” (he’s not Gen Z anyway) but we are expected to view a powerful government official as both a victim and yet heroic for having not only kids, but black kids, and still managing to show up for work.

He’ll get to this border thing at some point, but really his life is so much more important than yours because, you see, he’s raising three black kids with a black wife, which you couldn’t possibly understand anyway.

Come back Lori, almost all is forgiven.