‘Keep Our Name Out of Your Mouth!’ Chicago Mayor to Ted Cruz

Long before his most recent critiques and criticisms of the City of Baltimore, Donald Trump and Republicans generally have delighted in holding up Chicago as the poster-child-city for all that is wrong with urban (read: black) America.

However, the most recent nationally known Republican to engage in the GOP’s never-ending Chicago-bashing hate fest is twice failed presidential candidate and “Never Trumper”-turned-Trump-acolyte, Senator Rafael Edward (“Ted”) Cruz of Texas. And, like practically all GOPers who think of themselves as “conservatives,” Cruz follows the color-coded play book which writes Chicago off thusly:

• Chicago as irredeemably violent;
• Chicago as “uncontrollable;”
• Chicago as “uncivilized;”
• Chicago as “pathological;”
• Chicago as too “Democrat” (nee’ Democratic);” and, of course,
• Chicago as too “liberal.”

One does not need a political science degree from a prestigious Ivy League university to readily discern that what lies barely beneath the surface of each of these degrading descriptors is a heartfelt, soul-deep “conservative” belief, indeed, an absolute…