The Republican Corruption in Washington Has Trickled Down to the States -- Slate

Much of the history of the modern Republican Party in Washington, from the "Gingrich Revolution" to President Trump, consists of repeated, successful attacks on the norms of American governance. That ethos has trickled down to Republicans across the country, who have taken the always fraught and divisive world of politics and made it a war by other means. Take Wisconsin. ....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/the-republican-corruption-in-washington-has-trickled-down-to-the-states.html