Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will see evening showers with a high of 46. Sunrise is 6:22 and sunset is 7:30, for 13 hours, 8 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 89.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
Scott Walker, former governor of Wisconsin and one-time presidential candidate, spoke in Madison this week. Walker is the president of Young America’s Foundation. It’s a position far from the current center of Republican gravity (in Wisconsin or nationally): far past the asteroid belt, much closer to Neptune than Earth. Walker has a well-paid gig, wears a tie, and appears occasionally to speak. He’s also desperate to trim any position he ever had to remain topical. Here’s Walker describing Trump’s anti-market tariffs:
MADISON – Former Gov. Scott Walker says he’s no fan of tariffs but he’s willing to give President Donald Trump’s gamble on taxing foreign imports a chance.
Walker spoke Monday night to about 100 students and members of the public gathered at UW’s Grainger Hall for an event hosted by Young America’s Foundation, of which Walker is the president.
Walker, who spoke on a variety of topics, said he isn’t typically supportive of tariffs and favors open trade.
But, he said, Trump is doing what he believes needs to be done to get America back on the same playing field as everyone else. Walker said that if anyone had read Trump’s book, “The Art of the Deal,” they would know he’s a fan of tariffs.
“I think that can end up being a good thing as long as we eventually get the free trade because again, then Americans can compete,” he said. “We can innovate.”
See Laura Schulte, Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says Trump’s tariffs should end by Labor Day, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 8, 2025.
Walker is for free trade, unless Trump believes otherwise. Disorder can be a good thing as long as we get order again eventually, filthiness can be a good thing as long as we get cleanliness eventually, illness can be a good thing as long as we are healthy eventually.
It would be better to have order, cleanliness, and health from the start. Walker’s too weak, too needy, to speak sensibly.
A ridiculous man, one of many.
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