A High-Stakes Primary in Wisconsin’s Race for Governor
Walker, swept into office with the Republican tsunami of 2010 that put both houses of the state legislature under GOP domination, demonized public employee unions, especially teachers, as part of a “divide and conquer” strategy. Trump, similarly, has demonized immigrants who are not members of his immediate family.Both Walker and Trump used the levers of power to redraw voter district boundaries to their party’s advantage, while doctrinaire conservative justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and U.S. Wisconsin was left as what was often labeled the most heavily gerrymandered state in the nation.
- ▪Walker, swept into office with the Republican tsunami of 2010 that put both houses of the state legislature under GOP domination, demonized public employee unions, especially teachers, as part of a “divide and conquer” strategy.
- ▪Trump, similarly, has demonized immigrants who are not members of his immediate family.Both Walker and Trump used the levers of power to redraw voter district boundaries to their party’s advantage, while doctrinaire conservative justices on
- ▪Wisconsin was left as what was often labeled the most heavily gerrymandered state in the nation.
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A High-Stakes Primary in Wisconsin’s Race for GovernorWill the Democrat who wins the party’s gubernatorial nomination August 11 be too progressive to beat a sycophantic Trump crony?Bill Lueders24 JulyUpgrade to listen10 minutes(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, Shutterstock)IN HIS NEW BOOK, This Is the Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy, former Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler puts his finger on his state’s national political importance, at one point declaring:What our country is going through now—a soul-ripping, mind-rending nightmare of corrupt authoritarianism in which a far-right candidate takes power on the back of economic discontent and culture wars and then uses his victory to claim a mandate for a sweeping, lawless…
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