Ben Wikler
speaker
259 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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It seemed as though they'd succeeded.
And Wisconsin wasn't the only state where this happened.
Take Iowa.
Take Florida.
Wisconsin in 2018.
No, I'm saying take Florida.
State after state.
In 2018, the right had a plan.
They called it Red Map.
They invested in winning state legislative races.
And then as soon as they won, they used their power, like getting a genie and wishing for more wishes, to lock in control so that even if voters rejected them in the future, they would always have majorities of the votes in the legislature.
They could not be fired.
That's exactly it.
And they did the same thing in Wisconsin.
And my view, and I argue this in the book, is that Project 2025 is reheated Project 2011.
This is a nationalized version of what they've been doing in the states when they took control.
That's right.
Which is to defund public services, to rip off the public, to give tax cuts to the super wealthy, and then break democracy so that when people don't like what they're doing, they have no say in the matter of fixing it.
And the legislature in Wisconsin is also now... Fair maps and Democrats have at least an even chance of flipping both legislative chambers on November 4th.
So this is, I'm proud of having played a role.
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