The decimation of the political Left under former President Barack Obama has been well-documented. Since he was first elected in 2008, the Democratic Party has lost more than 1,000 legislative seats, with more than 900 of those at the state level. Over that time, conservatives have scored countless legislative victories in the states, but perhaps no movement has seen greater success than labor reform.
It started in 2011 when Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., and the state legislature enacted Act 10, the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, in the face of 100,000 angry protesters at the state capitol. That legislation reformed collective bargaining, turned a $3.6 billion budget deficit into a surplus, and made Wisconsin the first state to require government unions to stand for re-election annually in order to remain accountable to workers.
