MY LATEST FOR THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP: Chicago Alderman Says Democrats ‘Too Afraid’ to Ask Trump to Quell Riots.

“The Chicago Way” used to mean bringing a gun to a knife fight: “He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue,” in David Mamet’s famous dialogue from The Untouchables.

What do you call it when elected officials actively work against the best interests of their own constituents, up to and including abetting violence and even murder, just to make sure Orange Man Bad never looks good?

In Chicago these days they call it “business as usual.”

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