The Week: Wisconsin Flushes Sewer Socialism

• We have a feeling that this year Thanksgiving will indeed be a painful experience at Francesca Hong’s house.

• Socialist Francesca Hong lost Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Wisconsin’s gubernatorial election to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley. Crowley will now face off against GOP Representative Tom Tiffany in November. Hong, who had endorsed canceling the Thanksgiving holiday and abolishing the police, caused panic among Democrats as she surged in the polls. In a desperate gambit, incumbent Democratic Governor Tony Evers endorsed and campaigned with Crowley, bluntly telling reporters that he did not think Hong could win in November. His bet paid off. Crowley is no moderate: He wants Medicaid to enroll even more Wisconsinites, and he co-sponsored legislation declaring abortion a form of health care. But he is much more of a standard-issue Democrat than Hong. This represents the second polling miss of the month in the Midwest. In the Michigan Senate race, Abdul El-Sayed was expected to crush Representative Haley Stevens, only to barely hang on come Election Day. Perhaps pollsters are talking to too many people with graduate degrees, and perhaps the strength of the Democratic Socialists has been greatly exaggerated.

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• We have a feeling that this year Thanksgiving will indeed be a painful experience at Francesca Hong’s house.

• Socialist Francesca Hong lost Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Wisconsin’s gubernatorial election to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley. Crowley will now face off against GOP Representative Tom Tiffany in November. Hong, who had endorsed canceling the Thanksgiving holiday and abolishing the police, caused panic among Democrats as she surged in the polls. In a desperate gambit, incumbent Democratic Governor Tony Evers endorsed and campaigned with Crowley, bluntly telling reporters that he did not think Hong could win in November. His bet paid off. Crowley is no moderate: He wants Medicaid to enroll even more Wisconsinites, and he co-sponsored legislation declaring abortion a form of health care. But he is much more of a standard-issue Democrat than Hong. This represents the second polling miss of the month in the Midwest. In the Michigan Senate race, Abdul El-Sayed was expected to crush Representative Haley Stevens, only to barely hang on come Election Day. Perhaps pollsters are talking to too many people with graduate degrees, and perhaps the strength of the Democratic Socialists has been greatly exaggerated.