Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin, said what many believe to be a faux paus at the CPAC meeting. Walker said with regard of groups like ISIS, “If I can take on a 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.”
Though on the face of it the comment is silly, what the critics don't understand is that breaking a union makes a hero of a Republican candidate for president, especially if it is a Civil Service union it seems. A large part of of Ronald Reagan's stature among Republicans was his breaking of the Air Controller's Union. In fact the comparison of Walker to Reagan is ongoing now.*
I'm not surprised that Walker is now the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president, and I wouldn't be surprised if he is successful. A second notch in his belt is that Wisconsin just became a Right To Work state. The weird thing is that the so-called disaffected white male worker who votes Republican goes along with this sort of things. They really think that every man for himself allows them to individually negotiate a good living. So as the unions decline so do workers wages.
* http://humanevents.com/2015/03/06/attacks-on-scott-walker-remind-of-reagan/
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