Tag: Turning Point USA
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Free speech and the Constitution took a bullet
‘Our nation is broken.’ — Gov. Bryan Cox, Utah Maybe we were too old to fully appreciate Charlie Kirk in his too-short lifetime, but the young man was engaged in free and open debate on the issues of our time where it mattered most: on our blinkered college campuses. (His “Prove Me Wrong” tour visited UW-Madison…
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WI GOP looking for someone to make the peace
‘How did things ever get this far?’ Third of three — at last! We’ve been monitoring the rumblings among the deepening factions of the Wisconsin Republican party with morbid fascination. Yes, it is a party in transition — reinvigorated by the Tea Party 15 years ago, broadened by Trump 10 years ago. Republicans snatched working…
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The WI GOP is fighting off a coup
from Charlie Kirk‘s Turning Point USA. Second of three parts. We’re expecting an old-fashioned donnybrook at the Wisconsin Republican state convention this weekend outside Wausau, hopefully without gallows or the QAnon shaman. But you never know. The spectrometer at Blaska Policy Werkes shows three groups jostling for power in a deeply divided party. We examined…
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Republicans are battling for their soul
at next weekend’s WI GOP convention. Part 1 of 3. In our Boomer-addled imagination, the Wisconsin Republican convention opens May 16-17 outside of Wausau with a full screen, close-up of Bette Davis. As Margo Channing, she advises, “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy weekend.” The long knives are out. Names are being…
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WI Republican minority stuck in reverse
… still fighting (and losing) yesterday’s battles! The Republican Party of Wisconsin is cracking down on anti-Vos election deniers and took a sideways slap at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, which is seen as attempting a hostile takeover. RPW announced an emergency change in bylaws Monday, coming after the fractious 8th Congressional District caucus in…