Kevin Nicholson spent part of the Clinton era as president of the national College Democrats. Now he is seeking the Republican nomination for Senate in Wisconsin. If you ask his opponents, Nicholson’s left-to-right journey discredits him. If you ask Nicholson, though, he’ll tell you it’s a virtue. That dynamic has been especially evident over the past week.
This week has seen the rising prominence of a social media hashtag, #WalkAway, highlighting the stories of people who have decided to “walk away” from the Democratic Party. With the Wisconsin primary less than a month away, this notion couldn’t have materialized at a better time for Nicholson. After all, isn’t winning over converts the point of conservative evangelism? “It’s hardly an untraveled road, between Donald Trump and Mike Pence and many others,” Nicholson said in a Tuesday interview. “It’s worth reminding people that as we experience life — you know, mature, figure things out — that, yeah, you do typically become more conservative.”
