Battlefield Wisconsin

As the ultra-right political movement in the U.S. continues to move even further to the fringes, human rights are finding themselves squeezed.  On the chopping block now, for the first time in the last 50 years, are women’s abortion rights.

Wisconsin is one of those states like Pennsylvania, which, as a friend told me the other day, is “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in the middle,” i.e., concentrations of educated urbanites surrounded by tens of thousands of square miles of Trump supporters.

Mandela Barnes, whose statement we see above, is trailing GOP extremist Ron Johnson by 2% in the polls.  I wish him well, but this doesn’t look good.