Right here’s the issue.
Whereas Democrat Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker, who has presidential ambitions, is being praised by progressives for standing as much as President Donald Trump over the Nationwide Guard situation, he additionally occurs to be a billionaire.
And Democrats hate billionaires. They hate billionaires greater than they hate criminals, regardless that there are fewer than 9 hundred billionaires in america, a rustic of 350 million individuals.
Pritzker is one in every of them with a web price of $3.7 billion.
However Democrats don’t have any issues with millionaires since so lots of them, like socialist leaning Elizabeth Warren, (web price $8 million), Eddie Markey ($4 million) and Bernie Sanders, ($3 million) to call a couple of, are millionaires themselves.
It’s billionaires they’re after. Which accounts for Gov. Maura Healey, Warren, Markey and others on the Labor Day rally In Boston Monday marching below an indication that learn “staff over billionaires.”
To emphasise the purpose, a shrill Gov. Healey, in addressing the crowed, stated that Trump, as an alternative of serving to staff, “is barely serving to China and some of his richest billionaire mates.”
Whereas not a buddy, Pritzker is a kind of billionaires and he desires to run for president.
So, what to do about Pritzker, who occurs to one of many richest elected public officers in america?
Pritzker, 60, is wealthy, and he flaunts it, which little doubt causes concern amongst Democrats who purport to characterize the working class that the billionaires are allegedly dwelling off.
Can progressive Democrats– like Republicans have achieved with Trump– actually nominate a billionaire for president even when he funds his personal political marketing campaign, as Pritzker has achieved previously?
“Take it from an precise billionaire,” Pritzker informed Democrats at their occasion conference final 12 months, “Trump is wealthy in just one factor–stupidity.”
Trump has a web price of $6 billion, in accordance with Forbes, which should make him loads silly.
Moreover, the distinction between the 2 rich politicians is that Pritzker inherited his cash whereas Trump labored for his.
Pritzker’s wealth stems from the Hyatt Lodge chain which was based by his uncle Jay Pritzker and expanded by his father Donald Pritzker. His sister Penny, additionally a billionaire, served as U.S Secretary of Commerce below President Barack Obama.
Just like the issue-less Democrat Occasion basically, Pritzker’s solely “situation” is his opposition to Trump’s sending within the Nationwide Guard to cope with the horrific taking pictures within the streets of Chicago, America’s taking pictures gallery.
Pritzker and dopey Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have turned Chicago into Kabul throughout Joe Biden’s felony withdrawal, or Saigon throughout the Tet Offensive.
It’s fascinating to notice that whereas Pritzker calls Trump “unhinged” for wanting to make use of the Guard to quell murderous gun violence in fight zone Chicago, he had no drawback calling out the Guard to guard occasion delegates in opposition to potential violence from protesters on the Chicago 2024 Democrat Occasion conference.
Again then, he stated he known as out the Illinois Nationwide Guard “to additional safe civilian security, shield important infrastructure, and assist individuals train their First Modification rights.”
In different phrases, Pritzker is prepared to name out the Guard to guard Democrat politicians however refuses to make use of the Guard to guard Chicago individuals.
That’s the Democrat Occasion at this time.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas could be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.
