Walker, WI GOP backwater boosters ahead of curve

The Washington Post notes that red states are headed for self-inflicted decline:

Under Trump, red states are finally going to be able to turn themselves into poor, unhealthy paradises

May I say that Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans have been hard at work doing exactly that since they took power in 2011 - - remember that Walker delights in preaching havoc wreaking as a governing style - - and it's working! 

And they had to break the rules to turn us from Progressive Wisconsin to Wreakhavocstan. 

Ponder the decline and its rotten fruit:

*  From 2014:

You could not find a stronger indicator of Wisconsin's emerging backwater status and unflinchingly callous political direction under Scott Walker than his blockade of a minimum wage increase and dismissal of the need to even have it - - while 20 other states and the District of Columbia will increase it on January 1, 2015.

* From 2015:

Ugly data show Wisconsin at cusp of zero-growth

A couple of days ago, when analyzing policies of Walkerite Republicans that make Wisconsin unattractive, I'd written:

It would not surprise me if Wisconsin's population gain slows or plateaus as a result of these punitive, small-minded and overtly hostile GOP programs, guaranteeing Wisconsin's long-term status as a low-wage, slow-to-no-new job growth entrepreneurial and lifestyle backwater.

*  Also from 2015:

Wisconsin's middle class has taken biggest US hit:

How much evidence do you need to grasp the damage our 'Midwestern nice" presidential poseur-in-chief has added to Wisconsin's stalled economy through punitive, trickle-down fiscal 'planning' - - damage he heaped on top of a national recession recovery that is bypassing the state on his watch?

Report: Wisconsin worst in nation on shrinking middle-class

*  From 2016:

Wisconsin stifled by Walker's wasted, ideological tenure

Imagine if Walker and the ideologically-driven party, perpetual campaign, stage-managed Legislature, courts, agencies and media they control had put the same energy and resources they spent cutting education, dismantling collective bargaining, obstructing wind and solar development, preventing state residents from voting or playing favorites with public assets into honestly listening to people and crafting an inclusive, expansive, forward-looking agenda.

*  And more recently, from 2016: 

Walker-led WI economy stalled, unattractive, reports shows

[Updated from 10/29] Well, if as Republican Gov. Scott Walker did with ideological and partisan-power retaining motivations  - - you slash the state's cornerstone UW system budget and attack its historic mission - - the very attributes which drew students and faculty to the state - - and you  neglect and degrade the state's urban centers, and Wisconsin's environmental legacy and desperately-needed and ignored transportation alternatives which attract young millennials and families and entrepreneurs - - and you intentionally diminish women's right to choose, and unfettered voting, and honest public policy approaches to clean air, fresh water and climate change - - then of course your economy and state image will stall and decay as people look elsewhere while rejecting the unappealing product you put out every day as a matter of policy and intent, a new comprehensive report confirms.

*  And since declining public health will mark the red states' decline, there is this recent Wisconsin lowlight:

Walker evades clean drinking water law