Yesterday, despite it being a glorious brisk and bright April day in Wisconsin, was a tough one for good government in a state that once prided itself on it.
But before we get to that let’s talk about the good news. These days the very definition of good government is one without Donald Trump in it. So, yesterday’s twenty-point blow out victory for the Democratic-backed candidate for Supreme Court bodes well for November. This result was only partially about the court itself. It was mostly about liberals and some independents showing up to voice their extreme displeasure with Trump. It demonstrates once again that liberals are supercharged, traditional Republicans are dispirited and MAGA voters didn’t know there was an election going on.
But look deeper and things aren’t so great. Democrat Chris Taylor got 90% of the vote in Madison. Count me with the 10%. When Taylor represented Madison’s uber-left east side in the State Assembly she was so extreme as to be regarded by many as unhinged from time to time. She does not have a judicial temperament. She told us in her campaign just exactly how she’ll vote on hot issues that will come before the court. And she now joins four other liberal justices who are just as partisan, if a bit less manic. All of the court liberals showed up at Taylor’s victory party to cheer her on as if this was just another partisan race and she had won another term in the Assembly. The court majority demonstrates again and again that they don’t understand what the role of the court is.