Illinois GOP gubernatorial candidate Gary Rabine following Trump down delusional political rabbithole

Millionaire Chicago suburban entrepreneur Gary Rabine is obviously an intelligent, industrious and successful businessman. Owning his own country club is proof positive.

But Rabine is soon to find out, like his hero and model Donald Trump, that business sense does not translate to extended political success. He opened his campaign for the GOP gubernatorial nomination next year with one of the most tone deaf, preposterous quotes ever, calling Trump’s four years in office “the strongest job creation administration in the history of my lifetime.”

That would only be true if the 57 year old Rabine was born on Inauguration Day 2017 or later. Trump job creation trailed his predecessor Obama even before pandemic hit with 10 months to go. America then lost 22 million jobs in part because of Trump’s disastrous response to pandemic which made it among the worst of all 195 nations. 2020 finished with 10 million of the 22 million jobs shed from pandemic still not back. The U.S. lost 6.7 million jobs for the full year, shrinking GDP by 3.5%, the largest decline since 1946 and the first decline since the Great Recession of 2008-9.

I can just see Rabine’s opening campaign slogan: “If you loved Trump’s economic record…you’ll love Rabine’s”.