Does outgoing Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers want the Democrats to lose statewide elections this fall? If he doesn't, he's got an odd way of showing it. One of the reasons Donald Trump won in 2016 and again in 2024 is because he doesn't show open disdain for most of the voters. Yeah, he'll roast the haters and the losers, but after years of the Democrats (and some Republicans, frankly) showing blatant disdain for more than half of the country, he was a refreshing change of pace.
Not so with Evers.
A couple of years ago, he abused his line-item veto power to enshrine in Wisconsin's budget four hundred years of tax increases to "fund schools." You know, the same schools where at least one-third of students can't read and do math, and where Black students in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) test at the bottom nationally.
That property tax increase is hitting Wisconsinites hard. Property taxes are skyrocketing and — if Democrats repeal Act 10 — it'll only get worse. As I wrote about last week, property taxes are the Democrats' big weakness in the upcoming election. If Republicans know how to attack them on it.
And, hoo boy, did Evers just give them the political ad of the decade.
My 400-year veto is here to stay—lawmakers either need to fund our public schools or get over it. https://t.co/hVwQUAi3oQ pic.twitter.com/t1QBDV71Aj
— Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) April 4, 2026
Deal with it? DEAL WITH IT?
People are losing their homes because of this asinine "veto" and voters are outraged. Evers clearly does not care, and he seems willing to burn it all down on his way out the door.
The Wisconsin GOP needs to take a screenshot of this post and run it in ads 24/7 until the election. Tie it to every Democrat running for office. Make it explicitly clear they do not care about your financial wellbeing. The party of so-called "affordability" does everything in its power to make life more expensive for you.
And then they tell you to bend over and suck it up.
I don't think that'll work, however.
According to the Marquette University Law School poll from last month, 58 percent of voters say they are more concerned about property taxes than funding schools. My guess is that number is going to increase exponentially now that the outgoing governor has told Wisconsin voters, "Tough sh**" on property taxes. And the Daily Signal reported Wisconsin Democrats only have a 30 percent approval rating, with a 57 percent disapproval. Again, I expect that number to go up.
As always with the Democrats, the pain is the point. They want to keep our children in failing, underperforming public schools. Not to educate them, of course, but to turn out a generation of indoctrinated, illiterate, and struggling adults who will be forced to vote for the Democrats' welfare schemes because you can't hold a decent job if you can't read or write, and you won't vote Republican if you've been brainwashed into believing they are Nazis.
It's as transparent as glass, and Wisconsin voters should see right through it.
If we had actual journalists in this state, they'd be asking the Democrats running for governor how they feel about Evers' parting message to the voters.
Because my guess is we're not just going to "deal with it."