Despite the left-leaning culture of the state capital, including the roots of Progressive politics and the legacies of Robert LaFollette, Wisconsin has become a purple state turning red, a political transformation born of positive policies to return a Midwestern state from the economic and political downturns of Washington D.C. dysfunction.
Last week, domestic terrorist and sometime Obama mentor Bill Ayers was scheduled to give a talk and promote his new book Public Enemy.
Despite his shamefully controversial and needlessly violent past in the name of advancing radical leftist policies, Ayers could not command enough interest to warrant charging people $25 to hear him talk. Madison residents resoundingly panned any interest, and Ayer's engagement was cancelled at the last minute. His declining popularity signals the growing insularity of leftist, progressive, and statist policies in the United States.
Coincidentally, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will soon release his own political memoir
Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge. He recaps the purpose, the process, and ultimately the success of enacting comprehensive reforms to collective bargaining rights for Wisconsin's public sector unions. Walker also accurately criticizes 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's blunders.
In contrast to Ayer's use intimidation and destruction, Walker relied legislative authority coupled with common sense and fiscal pragmatism to initiate the necessary and proper restoration of the taxpayer and voter authority over the public purse at the expense of coercively funded special interests.
Walker's calm and cool conservatism is working wonders on Madison residents, Wisconsin leaders, and national politics.