Ben Wikler

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259 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 26 Jul

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And then they changed the campaign finance and election laws to suit their model of winning elections.

And once they'd broken democracy, they started defunding public services.

So there were suddenly, people called them Scott holes after Scott Walker, potholes in the roads all over the state.

People had to spend hundreds of dollars a year on new tires.

And that's the con, right?

This is the Jon Stewart plan.

Yes.

So it almost worked.

Donald Trump in 2016 won Wisconsin.

Yes.

Narrow margin.

Less than one percentage point.

A lot of our elections come down to less than one percentage point.

They had cemented what looked like, for the foreseeable future, control of the state legislature.

Yes.

And the state Supreme Court was so dominated by the right that in 2017,

There was only one uncontested far-right candidate.

No one wanted to run against that person.

Someone wrote that it looked like the right was going to dominate the state Supreme Court for a generation to come.

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