One-time nobody now a candidate for governor and top demagogue in state Republican Party.

When faced with the choice of whether to identify a candidate as a liar or a fool, the generous course is to give the contender the benefit of the doubt and assume that they mean what they say. In other words, if a politician says something that is quantifiably dumb, the polite response is to assume that they must be, well, dumb.

The state’s election audit, a raft of new voting restrictions pushed forward by Republican leaders of the Legislature, the nation’s only special counsel investigation into the 2020 election and the move led by State Rep. and GOP gubernatorial candidate Timothy Ramthun to decertify the state’s electoral votes, taken together, put Wisconsin in a class by itself.

Why is Madison more progressive than, say, Wausau? The answer: Class warfare. Not rich versus the poor nor even capitalists versus workers, as the Marxists would have it. The divide demarcates people who work with their minds versus those who work with their hands, NY Times columnist Ross Douthat postulates.

Much of the Democratic Party is now made up of extremely liberal, affluent and well-educated urbanites. They’re super woke and pro-union, but when woke and solidarity run head-on into the education of their offspring, education is going to leave their other values in pieces on the side of the road.

The future of the United States of America, despite our current challenges, is bright if we follow fundamental principles.

This weekend Jarchow, in light of the well-reported news over the weeks that laws were being broken in Canada, and as a candidate for a top law-and-order office in Wisconsin tweeted a most bizarre statement.

The term “Wisconsin Idea” may seem vague to some, but it’s not to a group of students and faculty members from UW-Eau Claire or the Afghanistan refugees and partner groups they interacted with for two weeks in January.