{"id":67111,"date":"2018-06-18T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67111"},"modified":"2018-06-17T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T16:03:08","slug":"the-wrong-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67111","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Lesson?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So why did Trump win the ’16 election?<\/p>\n

Was it the Democrat party’s rocket-ride to the extreme left?<\/p>\n

The “Elite” condescension toward the great American geographic, political and economic middle?<\/p>\n

Donald Trump’s facility at seeing the above and appealing to people to whom it mattered?<\/p>\n

Or was it simple crass vulgarity?<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Democrats are picking “D”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Democrats are convinced that Wisconsin is primed for a Trump-backlash-inspired \u201cblue wave\u201d come November, and potential Walker challengers have joined the race in droves. With so many bodies in the race, a fringe candidate could conceivably win the primary with 15 to 20 percent of the vote and move on to face the vulnerable Republican incumbent in November. And just as Candidate Trump used vulgarity, insults, and half-cooked media stunts to differentiate himself from his primary opponents two years ago, so, too, are Walker\u2019s Democratic challengers in 2018.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And they are quite the cast of himbos:<\/p>\n

Mike McCabe, a former \u201cgood government\u201d activist who suggested he would rent the governor\u2019s mansion out to travelers on Airbnb, began his campaign by promising to end Walker\u2019s \u201cgolden-shower economics.\u201d Businessman Andy Gronik, who received a settlement of more than $6 million in a lawsuit he filed claiming a house he had purchased had given him an inflammatory-bowel disorder, told a debate crowd that he couldn\u2019t wait to \u201chit\u201d Walker. And on the same rainy day Mahlon Mitchell dropped his scatological stylings on the transportation group, state school superintendent Tony Evers joined a group in Madison protesting cuts to the state\u2019s university system and told the group Walker\u2019s cuts were \u201cbullsh**.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And just watch – if they win, “being crude, crass and impolitic” will suddenly become a virtue among Dems.<\/p>\n

If there is a favorite in the Democratic field, it is Evers, a buttoned-up 65-year-old former teacher who has won three statewide elections as school superintendent. Nearly a decade ago, Evers beat cancer after having his esophagus and part of his stomach removed; today, he can\u2019t eat a full meal and has to sleep at a 45 degree angle. However, even though the avuncular Evers has appeared on three statewide ballots, he is still relatively unknown in areas outside heavily liberal Madison. One recent poll had Evers leading the primary field with a flaccid 20 percent, which may explain his sudden foray into campaigning\u2019s dark arts. In one January interview, he referred to Walker as an \u201cidiot,\u201d and he recently told the state Democratic convention that he was \u201cgoddamn sick and tired\u201d of Walker\u2019s policies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And just when you thought nothing could be…loonier\u00a0<\/em>than this past DFL convention..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So why did Trump win the ’16 election? Was it the Democrat party’s rocket-ride to the extreme left? The “Elite” condescension toward the great American geographic, political and economic middle? Donald Trump’s facility at seeing the above and appealing to people to whom it mattered? Or was it simple crass vulgarity? Wisconsin Democrats are picking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67172,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67111\/revisions\/67172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}