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WaPo's Dana Milbank: This Scott Walker kind of reminds me of Joe McCarthy, huh?



Here's what you need to know about Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. He's a liberal, of course, but he's a particular kind of liberal. There are different breeds, after all. Milbank is one of those who's spent way too much time in Washington and has come to mistake many of the presumptions people make in Washington for absolute fact - among them the idea that labor unions are just honest folks standing up for other honest folks, and that anyone who suggests they're a problem in any way is just a demagogue looking to use working people for target practice.
Knowing that will help you to make sense of this broadside against Scott Walker:
Walker then went on to celebrate his triumphs over the demonstrators who objected to his dismantling of Wisconsin’s public-sector unions, portraying the pro-union forces as violent thugs. “Those big government interests — they believe they can win by intimidating elected officials,” he said. “There were amazing things they did to try to intimidate us. The good news is we didn’t back down. We remembered the reason we were elected was not to serve the few in our state capitol, but to serve the masses.” This is the essence of Walker’s appeal — and why he is so dangerous. He is not as outrageous as Donald Trump and Sen.Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), but his technique of scapegoating unions for the nation’s ills is no less demagogic. Sixty-five years ago, another man from Wisconsin made himself a national reputation by frightening the country about the menace of communists, though the actual danger they represented was negligible. Scott Walker is not Joe McCarthy, but his technique is similar: He suggests that the nation’s ills can be cured by fighting labor unions (foremost among the “big government special interests” hurting America), even though unions represent just 11 percent of the American workforce and have been at a low ebb. Earlier this year, Walker likened the union protesters in Madison, Wisc., to the murderous Islamic State: “If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.” Before that, he described public-sector union members as the “haves” taking advantage of the “have-nots” — the taxpayers.

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He denounced the protests against his efforts to undo the unions as “thuggery.” He described collective bargaining as a “corrupt system” and diagnosed union leaders as having a “sense of entitlement.” After beating public-sector unions and surviving recall, Walker this year signed anti-union Right-to-Work legislation. He has said he doesn’t think the minimum wage serves a purpose, and he has opposed prevailing-wage and living-wage requirements.
OK, Dana, so you allow that Scott Walker "is not Joe McCarthy" but having first aired the suggestion that they are alike, you go on at length to make your case that Walker might as well be the reincarnation of McCarthy, hauling people into the star chamber and demanding, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a union member?" The funny thing about Milbank's rant, of course, is that he presumes to indict Walker simply by telling us things he said, and anyone who understands how public sector unions really operate will recognize there is nothing the slightest bit objectionable about anything Walker said. They do engage in thuggery. (Did you see the violence in Michigan after right-to-work was passed?) Collective bargaining is a corrupt system. (Unions give to Democrats who get elected and give to unions. Rinse. Repeat.) The minimum wage doesn't serve a purpose, except to let politicians screw around with private-sector business relationships. And yes, the public sector union members who wrangle generous pensions out of states - leading many of them into fiscal crises in the process - certainly do have something that the taxpayers have not. The title of Milbank's column is "Why Scott Walker is so dangerous." Word. Scott Walker is so dangerous to the likes of Dana Milbank because when he takes on the unions and wins, he exposes the unions as what they really are - and if the general public starts to notice, one of the crucial underpinnings of the whole liberal proposition is kicked out from under the foundation. By the way, here's another liberal tactic that Milbank is only too happy to engage in: A Republican candidate who has an impressive accomplishment on his record talks about said accomplishment, only to have liberal pundits mock him for constantly talking about it. Meanwhile, they back Hillary Clinton, who has never accomplished anything in her life - and wouldn't stand a chance at the presidency if not for the help of journalists like Dana Milbank who write about a world in which up is down, unions are wonderful and Scott Walker is practically Joe McCarthy.


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