Deliberately provocative title here, and I’m not going to go on record making a prediction, but I just have a bad feeling about it. The persistent bugbear on the Democratic side is voter turnout. Hong had momentum and energy, with the potential to drive strong turnout of the progressive and Democratic base. By the AP numbers I saw, she had majority support through much of the state, while Crowley won with a majority of Milwaukee voters. Which is to be expected, as that’s where the biggest chunk of our population lives. But also, Milwaukee has historically had soft Democratic voter turnout.
Voters there chose him in the primary; will they show up for the general election?
I unfortunately don’t have time to respond to all of your points here, so I will be brief: my point is not “vote GOP because Dems bad”. My point is vote for more socialist Dems. Instead of settling for the lesser of two evils, we should be pushing for actual, meaningful plans for change, not just “tweaking around the edges” like the last two Dem administrations. We have had big problems long before Trump came into power, and they have only gptten bigger since then. Anyone who isn’t proposing actual solutions to those problems need to get out of the way.
Have a good evening!