Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget portends hard fight for ’26

Paul Vallas redemption tour starts now

Least popular mayor in Chicago history, straight up and it’s only been since May last year.

* Dude is in over his head and is a textbook narcissist

* only listens to the teachers’ union and/or sycophants

* Significant portion of City Council in open rebellion to the point where **they commissioned the poll that shows just how unpopular he is**

* the media is actively hostile to him because of his combative defensiveness to the point where even neutral papers are saying his administration always finds a way to look bad

* walking HR violation of a press secretary fired, mayor office staffers attempted to “peace circle” the concerns away. They worked together and are “longtime friends”

* another mayoral aide donated to campaigns **calling himself the mayor and using the mayor’s address.** Said mayoral aide’s mom lost Houston mayoral race last year. Mayoral aide kept voting in Houston even though a requirement to work for Chicago is to live in Chicago

* “collaborator in chief” yet JB Pritzker says that he definitely isn’t calling on a regular basis and is “baffled” that he even suggests he is

* cluster of a migrant crisis handling to the point where it was clear he had no idea how to engage stakeholders within the city

* Illinois General assembly leaders who he worked directly for and whose kids grew up with each other yet Johnson can’t be bothered to give them a wishlist

* blames MAGA Republicans for his proposed property transfer tax getting rejected at the polls when Chicago has never passed a referendum like that and isn’t used to binding referenda

* thinks he has a colossal mandate even though he won the closest mayoral election since the 80s

* entire school board resigned on him because they didn’t want to fire the city superintendent over not wanting to approve what is effectively a payday loan to pay for teacher union demands

* Stupid quote machine however I’ll leave you with these two: “it may be a yes or no question for you but I will respectfully ask you to ask your question and I’ll respond in the way in which I want to” and “I am one of the greatest human beings for just teaching middle school students”

Others call him a left version of Trump and I agree