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 we brought the focus to these local races that added up in the kind of web of how American political power works in this country that added up to enough power to unrig our state system.
Here's what I'll say.
There are dozens of people thinking about running for president.
There are amazing people running for governor and Senate and Congress around the country.
They are talking, you know, a lot of the great ones are talking about they want this policy, they want that policy that will solve a problem in people's actual lives.
What I try to do in this book is say, if you actually want to pass policies that can stick and actually deliver for people ways that they can touch and see and feel, you have to unrig a political system that right now is built to allow a handful of far-right billionaires to write the rules for everyone and face no accountability.
In Wisconsin, after 2024, Elon Musk came to my state to try.
He bought it.
He tried to buy it.
He tried to undo what we'd done in the state Supreme Court.
He went to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
He put on a cheese head and he said, you might not think that this election will affect the entire destiny of humanity, but I think it will.
And for him, this was his demonstration that these pesky little Wisconsinites could not stand up to the world's richest man that everyone needed to fear him.
He spent more money in that race than anyone's ever spent in any judicial election in American history.
And then we beat his ass by 10 percentage points and he was booted out of the White House.
The American political system right now is Democrats get control.
They mess everything up.
The country goes into crisis.
Imagine 2008.
Flip that.
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