An Election in Wisconsin and the Course of Democracy in America

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2023

Years of gerrymandering and campaign-finance deregulation in Wisconsin have made the state a "democracy desert." An election for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will have broad implications for abortion access within the key swing state and the course of democracy beyond it. Dan Kaufman, journalist and author of The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018) tells us what's at stake.

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