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The following is an excerpt from “The Green and Gold Standard: A People’s History of the Green Bay Packers” by Thomas Nelson and published by Triumph Books. The book is due out Sept. 1 and is available for preorder here.

Independent voters reminded everyone Tuesday that persuasion still matters. That campaigns must earn trust rather than assume it. On a very tense but exciting election night in the Badger State, it was the independent voters who ensured the race was not called the way many polls had strongly predicted.

When it was revealed last week that Francesca Hong had Tweeted about her desire to cancel Thanksgiving because it is a “colonizer” holiday, I thought that was the least of the troubles ahead for the presumptive Democratic nominee. Instead, it may have been the thing that took her down.

Wisconsin Democrats stared into the electoral abyss and decided, on second thought, they would rather actually win elections than take a chance on what David Axelrod memorably called “zany liberal, faculty lounge exotica.”

We cannot see Hong making nice with Crowley any more than many of Crowley’s supporters would have broken a sweat for Hong.

Everett Marshburn was a driving force behind ‘Black Nouveau’ on Milwaukee PBS who mentored countless young journalists. I will miss my friend.

Get used to annually choking on smoke from wildfires, which have raged across North America, parts of Europe and elsewhere in the world. This isn’t about to change anytime soon, especially now that chicken Democrats have abandoned climate change at its mitigation as an issue.

Trump needs to let the Iran war go. If he doesn’t, he, like Johnson, will be remembered for a war and not the herculean accomplishments of an otherwise monumental second term.

Truth is usually the first casualty. The proof is clear on the international trade war kicked off with heavy tariffs on imported goods by the Trump administration.