When you rank the brazen hypocrisy of Republicans in the age of Governor Rauner and President Trump, you have to put the Ken Dunkin affair near the top of the list.
When Dunkin caught heat from Democrats for betraying the party’s base, he tried to play it off like he was the second coming of Malcolm X breaking free from house speaker Michael Madigan’s plantation.
Hey, voters—remember this the next time you hear Rauner gassing on and on about Democratic patronage and Chicago machine politics, like he did in a column recently published in the Sun-Times.
Actually, Rauner didn’t have a much of a choice in regard to Trump or Dunkin. If he criticizes Trump, Republican voters will turn against him. And he needs every Republican vote he can get in November’s race against Democrat J.B. Pritzker.
Then the Republicans could snatch away abortion rights or cut child-care assistance to working parents or do any of a number of diabolical deeds the GOP likes to do to women.
