Jon Stewart welcomed Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler to Monday’s The Daily Show on Comedy Central to promote his campaign for national party chairman. On one hand, Stewart was optimistic as he gushed over Wilker’s ability to stop Republicans from “diabolically making changes” in Wisconsin, but on the other, he was worried Democrats “have a harder row to hoe" because they are “not nihilistic” like Republicans.
Stewart wondered, “There was a supermajority in Wisconsin, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin was diabolically making changes to withstand power, Scott Walker was the governor. How did you turn that situation around?”
Wikler recalled, “So, Republicans took over Wisconsin in 2010 and immediately smashed unions, suppressed voting rights, gerrymandered the living daylights out of legislative maps to make sure they’d never lose power even if voters try to throw them out. And for years, it looked as though Wisconsin was going to fall off the cliff, be a state where Republicans controlled everything, whether voters liked it or not.”
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