JB Pritzker hat sich gerade von allen anderen Demokraten unterscheidet

“ He has firmly planted himself in the same “fighter” lane as California Governor Gavin Newsom—the better to distinguish himself from, say, whatever it is that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer thinks she’s been doing lately.“

„Pritzker ended up being the headline figure of that Monday news conference, thanks to the simplicity and directness of his message. *“Mr. President, do not come to Chicago,” he said. “You are neither wanted here nor needed here.”* He offered some satisfying digs at the evident decline of Trump’s mental faculties. He hit many of the right notes for someone who wants to establish himself as a leader of a dissident movement. But Pritzker saved his best for last, when he promised to take the fight against Trump a step farther than most Democrats have allowed themselves.“

*“ Finally, to the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous: We are watching and we are taking names.“*

„This is where Pritzker has leveled up over his fellow Democrats, by promising a future of accountability and retribution for the destruction Trump and his minions are doing to the constitutional order and our individual freedoms. As I wrote back in May, the Trump White House and the GOP are no longer a political party by any definition; rather, they are a sort of criminal syndicate with an extensive portfolio of white collar crimes, violent offenses against our civil rights, and an ongoing sort of imposed cultural tyranny that is killing off the well-paying jobs of the future by decimating academia, and literally sparking public health crises at home and abroad through the Lysenkoism of key administration figures like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.“

“There is a certain necessary logic to what has to follow corrupt misrule of this kind: tribunals, trials, punishment, prison, and the running to ground and defunding of the entire Trump syndicate.” The only thing we were lacking then was an ambitious political figure who was willing to say that they were ready and willing to make accountability a key plank in their platform. Pritzker has made a timely arrival.“

„As Discourse Blog’s Rafi Schwartz points out, this isn’t the only uniquely consequential aspect of Pritzker’s speech. The Illinois governor—channeling the feelings of so many who’ve forewarned of what was to come in a second Trump term—told those assembled, *“If it sounds to you like I am alarmist, that is because I am ringing an alarm, one that I hope every person listening will heed, both here in Illinois and across the country.”*

„And it sure sounds like Pritzker wants to put his hands to the task right now.*“If you hurt my people,” he said, “nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.”*

„In a week where Beltway Democrats passed their time pointlessly debating whether or not they were using words like “food insecurity” too much, and congratulating each other for calling the D.C. occupation a “stunt” or a “distraction,” hearing a Democratic politician speak in plain English is pleasingly bracing. These are, indeed, encouraging words to hear after Democrats long implored us to “look forward, not backward” and allowed misrule to go unpunished, thereby paving the road for Trump’s fascist second act.“

I want Oliver Platt playing him on SNL this season

The USA will have to go through a process of demagaification the same way Germany went through process of denazification. 

No more corporate billionaires. He is leagues above the rest but is still too far from the working class of America.

Ok, now Sit yourself down and start getting new congressional maps together and a process to implement.

I like it. These other dems need to step up like Pritzker and Newsom. Draw a hard line in the sand

I’m open to hearing what his policy positions are if he officially runs. I know almost nothing about him.

He’s the wealthiest, but it could probably be argued that it takes someone with wealth to ultimately understand to reign in those with wealth

Idk why I expected to read “JB Pritzker Just Set Himself On Fire” when I started reading this headline.

JB for president!

A few years ago, there was a post about how AOC had asked a number very tough questions during a congressional hearing. The best comment basically said, “you know what she’s doing? Her job.” The few Democrats like her and Pritzker that stand out are the ones who are actually doing what they’re supposed to.

Democrats need more like Pritzker and Newsom. Not afraid to fight back, and not just with words and tweets, but also not afraid to use their power. Red States are literally sending troops to DC to take control of it **illegally**. Understand the rules have been rewritten by Trump and GOP, and either you play by those rules or you can sit on fence like Whitmer, Shapiro and Pete

Simple and best start would be to stop gerrymandering and get rid of that ridiculous electoral college bullshit. One ballot one vote. The popular vote is the winner, like most sane democratic countries. No more minority rule.

Yes, he hit it out of the park.

Full remarks [here](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-speech-news-conference-full-text-trump/).

100% … there has to be accountability … the full power of the Executive Branch and the full slew of executive power grab moves HAS to be used by Democrats against Republicans to undo everything they have done and hold people fully accountable … this has to be done instantly and ruthlessly the second D’s manage to get back in power.

This was the lesson Biden did not learn; he thought by being a reasonable, decent Moderate that Republicans would get back to being sane. He was tragically mistaken.

I love Pritzker and have been saying for months now he’s my guy for 2028.

He’s shown a willingness to antagonize Trump and I really want to see him take some pages out of Newsoms book.

I’d call it the bare minimum, and its disgraceful that it isn’t standard to default to stopping their crimes and preventing more, but at least he’s doing it.

I will agree he’s better than Newsom so far, but part of that is just Newsom’s history. We’ll still have to see what he runs on.

Pritzker and Newsome front runners for 2028.

Another billionaire? Good job Dems. lol