Fierce partisan scraps in Wisconsin could be beneficial. It will remind national Democrats to pay attention to the state
, Wisconsin’s governor and a former teacher, is so gently spoken you might wonder how he used to hush a class of pesky pupils. A cancer survivor with a shock of white hair, he ran for office promising to focus on “solving problems, not picking fights”. His calm manner appealed to many after eight years of Scott Walker—a Republican governor who relished confrontation as he cut public spending and battered unions.
He proposes that an independent commission should decide on electoral redistricting after a census in 2020, rather than leaving it as usual to the legislature. The idea is to reduce flagrant gerrymandering that favoured Republicans, who won 63 of 99 Assembly seats in November 2018 despite getting less than half the votes and far fewer than the Democrats. The average voter seems to agree that this is unjust: a recent poll found that 72% support his plan for a non-partisan redistricting body.
What explains Mr Evers’s newfound taste for confrontation? Some had expected him to try co-operating with moderate Republicans, given his slender victory last year. Dan Kaufman, author of “The Fall of Wisconsin”, a damning and entertaining account of Mr Walker’s eight years, instead sees a reckoning under way as Mr Evers undoes the many changes of recent years.
Such behaviour invites retaliation. Barry Burden at the University of Wisconsin in Madison sees Mr Evers learning from Mr Walker in pushing several controversial plans early, when his mandate is strongest. “It seems so dramatic and with many moving parts it is hard to focus, as the opposition,” says Mr Burden. In the turmoil some measures—such as spending on education and roads, plus Medicaid expansion—may pass as the opposition concentrates on blocking more controversial plans.
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