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there was little reason to doubt the end result. In 2008, Barack
Obama trounced John McCain in Wisconsin by fourteen points;
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evening. Taylor was not confident of the outcome. She had can-
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lor for Assembly” T-shirts and held signs, waving at the cars
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with a brisk wind blowing off Lake Monona a block away. Doz-
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ens of people had shown up to join Taylor and her kids. Some-
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fifty-two.
Around one in the morning, Taylor straggled to bed know-
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ing Trump would win Wisconsin. A half hour later, the net-
the fall of wisconsin is the story of how the state went
from a widely admired “laboratory of democracy” to a testing
ground for national conservatives bent on remaking Ameri-
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of the middle class of any state in the country. Its poverty rate
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Madison had fallen, for the first time, out of the rankings of
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To tell this story, I’ve relied on citizens who bore the brunt of