Scott Walker (R), who’d just inspired massive protests by ramming through a bill that stripped public sector employees of their right to bargain collectively. Three years later, while I was working for a small political magazine in D.C., I wrote an innocuous blog post about Walker. He was the sad, preservative-laced ham sandwich in the otherwise unassuming brown paper bag of Wisconsin politics. Walker and his allies will surely consider the devastation he brought to Wisconsin over the past eight years a success. Let’s just say that, under Walker, Wisconsin underperformed its Democrat-run cousin, Minnesota, on nearly every meaningful metric: Non-farm job growth.

Source: Huffington Post November 09, 2018 00:11 UTC