Scott Walker's Cynical Trek Into Populism... great article from RCP

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Imagine that 40 years ago two pals started a small company in a barn in the rural Midwest. Through dint of hard work, smart planning, and a little luck, they managed to build the business into a dominant brand that employed 1,800 people around the globe and generated $600 million in annual revenue. Sounds like a case study in the American Dream, right? A story that represents the kind of entrepreneurial spirit that most Americans -- especially Republican politicians -- hail as the bedrock of our upwardly mobile free-market system.

Well, the story isn’t fiction, it’s fact. The company is Trek Bicycle, and its co-founders, Dick Burke and Bevil Hogg, did indeed start it in an old red barn in Waterloo, Wis., in 1975. In less than half a century they built the company into the largest bike manufacturer in America.


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"That ad says more about him than it does about me, or Trek," Burke said. "It shows that he puts politics in front of what's good for the state, and for the people. For him to drag a great Wisconsin company through the mud is bad for business. It's all about politics with him."

Walker even received flak from the right-leaning Wall Street Journal, which chastised him last week in a brief item. “Economic populism is usually the province of Democrats who don't understand how free markets work or who cynically hope to exploit voters' insecurities,” it said. “Mr. Walker is better than that.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/07/25/scott_walkers_cynical_trek_into_populism_123446.html

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