The Chicago mayor has lost every last shred of his authority or persuasive power.

Allow me a brief Windy City dispatch this afternoon to point out that my favorite local Chicago punching bag remains the rest of the city’s as well, including, this time, literally every single member of the Chicago City Council. Yes, Mayor Brandon Johnson keeps being dealt blow after blow, whether by city voters rejecting six of his ten Chicago Teachers Union–approved candidates for the Board of Education last week, or by having his own school board resign a month ago rather than kowtow to the inappropriate pressure he was placing on them, or by having his massive proposed transfer tax on businesses selling properties shot down during the March primaries. A few weeks ago he made history by becoming the single most unpopular mayor in the history of opinion polling in Chicago. And yesterday, bless his hopelessly hapless heart, he found yet another way to get kicked straight in the teeth, this time with all the unified force this city’s political class is capable of mustering.

You see, Brandon Johnson has a big problem with all of the progressive programs he wants to fund: The city has no money as it is. (This is why Johnson working hand-in-glove with the CTU to give the store away to them — and trying to fund it by forcing schools CEO Pedro Martinez to take out dangerously high-interest loans — is such a civic outrage.) He was hoping to raise it with the transfer tax — but that got dumped off of Navy Pier by Democratic primary voters back in March. His latest proposal was to raise property taxes outright — in a city already crushed by them, and in specific contravention of his campaign promise not to.

Let’s be careful about our use of hyperbole here: I wouldn’t characterize this as a “bridge too far” for Brandon Johnson, if only because he drove beyond that Golden Gate–sized span with voters and lawmakers long ago. But this time the entire City Council decided to join together and curb-stomp him publicly. On Thursday of last week, a shocking 29 out of 50 total council members joined together to call for an early vote on the proposed tax. To savvy folk who can count, it was pretty clear given the number of signatories that the outcome was a fait accompli, and Johnson was on his way to yet another humiliating setback.

But I wonder if he predicted just how humiliating it would be: Yesterday, when the vote was finally taken, Johnson lost his own Democratic City Council by a stunning 50–0. That’s right, he lost everyone. Austin Berg, of the superb Illinois Policy Institute, notes that it has been over half a century since a 50–0 no vote has been lodged at City Hall, and for obvious reasons: Imagine how terrible you must be to have alienated literally every politician you work with. I won’t pretend we’re any closer to answers here in Chicago — we’re still out of money, after all — but everyone is agreed on one thing: Brandon Johnson has lost every last shred of his authority or persuasive power.