Ben Wikler
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259 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Ben Wikler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Absolutely.
So my state, Wisconsin, which has a deep progressive tradition and a deep far-right tradition.
Joe McCarthy's from Wisconsin.
Yes.
So is Fighting Bob.
So is Fighting Bob La Follette.
It's the place where workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, the Social Security Act was written by a Wisconsinite.
All these things, great things came from our state.
Progressive taxation, first aid to ratify the 19th Amendment, and also this far-right street that runs through the state's history.
We zigzag, sort of like the country.
But in 2010, there was this huge right-wing wave fueled in part by Citizens United.
And my senator, Russ Feingold, who I interned for, was my political hero.
He'd passed campaign finance reform to get big money out of politics.
He was swept out, replaced by Ron Johnson.
In the state legislature, Republicans won.
It had been Democratic.
They won majorities in both chambers.
They won the governorship.
But when they came into power,
They didn't just do the right-wing things that they talked about.
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