You don’t have to be a genius to see where the inspiration for the Republican bulldozing of worker’s rights in Michigan and Wisconsin comes from. All you need is a memory. The inspirational act occurred in 2003, shortly after the U. S. invaded Iraq to overthrow a dictator in the name of freedom and to rid that country of all those WMDs in the name of national security.
Once the city of Baghdad was “shocked and awed” and martial law was imposed to halt the looting, the first official Republican action by the newly imposed administration was to fire of all of the Iraqi officials who ran things. They were replaced by political cronies known as “private contractors” with no culture or language skills but bagfuls of bribe money, as well as their own private mandate to please their new boss.