Losing three statewide elections in four years and watching the opposition grow their majorities in each legislative chamber ought to be a humbling experience. It is the type of thing that ought to engender some real self-reflection and examination of a party’s message.
But if you’re the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, you invite one of the country’s most liberal politicians, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, to Milwaukee for the annual Founder’s Day Gala to fire up the troops.

The announcement from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin reads in part:
Mayor de Blasio is a strong Democratic leader and true progressive. As mayor of our country’s largest city, Bill de Blasio is taking dead aim at the income inequality crisis that is hurting too many families and workers. He is fighting to ensure every single child has access to a great education and standing up to give all New Yorkers a fair shot by lifting wages and securing workplace protection.
De Blasio is one of the most progressive mayors in America. He’s quickly become divisive in New York by cozying up to the teachers union, opposing charter schools, and building on his crusade to turn the Big Apple into Big Havana. And all this was before de Blasio engendered open revolt among the New York Police Department after cops felt he turned his back on them.
This sounds like just the type of message for a state party that continues to lose out-state voters by increasingly being marginalized into Milwaukee and Dane counties.
Then again, this is the party that without any hint of irony concludes their announcement with: “I hope you will join myself, Mayor de Blasio, and Democrats from across Wisconsin as we take a moment to celebrate all that we have accomplished and look towards the important work of retaking our state in 2016.”
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