In summary, a leftist author is writing about blue-fister leftists who are picking up their marbles and moving to a the commune of Minnesota.
Wisconsin used to be a liberal’s paradise owing to the domination of Madison and Milwaukee. The rest of the state got fed up with Madison and Milwaukee voters destroying the state and have been putting Republicans in office for the past few election cycles to the point that Republicans hold all statewide offices, save one unimportant one.
The good news is that these leftists are leaving. My only hope is that this is a mere trickle that turns into a tidal wave.
A few years ago the garbage wrap told a tale of when he was a reporter , he and another one found a body floating in one of the Madison lakes and hid it under a pier or somesuch until the news could be in the Times rather than the competition---
>>...to the point that Republicans hold all statewide offices, save one unimportant one.<<
That would be LaFollette, the Secretary of State.
And Walker and the Wisconsin GOP have effectively taken all responsibility and funding away from his office after he refused to certify an election result in a timely manner for political purposes.
Moral: See my tagline. It works.