Di Leo: Taylor Swift and the Politics of Groupthink
By John F. Di Leo - Last weekend, pop (formerly country) superstar Taylor Swift – after years of carefully avoiding...
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer, and actor. Once a County Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party in the 1990s, after serving as president of the Ethnic American Council in the 1980s, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009. Professionally, he is a licensed Customs broker, and has worked in freight forwarding and manufacturing for over forty years. John is available for training seminars ranging from the Incoterms and free trade agreements to the challenge of re-shoring to minimize tariff impacts (https://tradecomplianceseminars.com/), as well as fiery speeches concerning the political issues covered in his columns. His book on vote fraud, “The Tales of Little Pavel,” his three-volume political satires of the Biden-Harris regime, “Evening Soup with Basement Joe,” and his 2024 non-fiction work covering the issues of the 2020s, "Current Events and the Issues of Our Age," are available in eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
By John F. Di Leo - Last weekend, pop (formerly country) superstar Taylor Swift – after years of carefully avoiding...
By John F. Di Leo - Bringing it in just under the wire, negotiators representing Mexico, Canada, and the United...
By John F. Di Leo - Driving through Wisconsin this weekend, I saw yard signs. Lots and lots of yard...
By John F. Di Leo - Reflections on Constitution Day, 2018 On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine of the delegates to...
By John Di Leo - Reflections on the fall campaign, for fellow conservatives… others may find this inside baseball boring,...
By John F. Di Leo - Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a past congressman and White House chief of staff, unexpectedly...
By John F. Di Leo - A recent report by a Pennsylvania grand jury has put a scandal – the one...
Chicago Crusader photo By John F. Di Leo - It is an election year, so the news concerns elections. But...
By John Di Leo - On August 3, 1492, Cristoforo Colombo (yes, you non-Italians spell it Christopher Columbus) set sail...
By John F. Di Leo - Every time the President talks about trade negotiations, it makes the news. On July...