Excuse my paraphrasing of Public Enemy, but to answer a question recently posed by the media — “What’s the point of Illinois Republicans?” — the point is to fight the powers that be.

In one sense, that question posed by the Tribune Editorial Board is insulting. In another sense, it is fair.

It is fair insofar as the leadership of the party has for a long time provided little vision or fighting spirit for anything resembling conservative ideas. T he expectation of waiting around for another couple of election cycles and hoping we get a better legislative map before we kick up any dust is the kind of lead-with-surrender approach that has made the Illinois GOP a superminority party.

The question is insulting because rank-and-file conservatives around Illinois already know what the poin

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