The Consequences of the Ballast Johnson Election

Michael Rode: Chicago will now get to see whether they like this version of, as you say, whatever the crime policy may turn out to be. They'll then get to vote on that in a few more years. He says it's bad for Democrats to increasingly be the poster child for bad urban governance. Michael Rode: The last Republican mayor of Chicago was I think left office in 1936. This is a machine run city. Choices are constrained and democratic accountability is constrained.