From the Desk of…If Emanuel Runs, He’ll Bet on Candor Defeating the ‘Culture Police’

From the desk of…If Emanuel runs, he’ll bet on candor defeating the ‘culture police’

Rahm Emanuel’s stint as ambassador to Japan followed his two terms as Chicago’s mayor, which followed his 20 months as Barack Obama’s first White House chief of staff. But before he formally begins his likely campaign for the Democrats’ 2028 presidential nomination, he has become a social scientist. As an avid bicyclist, Emanuel, when he retired from the mayor’s office, took a two-week, 900-mile ride around Lake Michigan with a friend. During th…

How Rahm Emanuel Got Trapped in the Bathroom

In a Washington Post interview last week, Rahm Emanuel shared his diagnosis of what ailed Democrats in 2024. The former Chicago mayor and former U.S. ambassador to Japan wishes some Democrats would worry less about “a child’s right to pick his pronouns” and more about “children who do not know what a pronoun is.”It’s a clever line: punchy, quotable, and perfectly calibrated for the anti-trans post-election Democratic circular firing squad. It’s …