From politicusa:

The Wisconsin GOP, already famous for bully-boy Stormtrooper tactics and disregard of decency has gone after a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, William Cronon, who specializes in history, geography and environmental studies and who is widely known as a moderate and non-partisan scholar, for asking who was really behind the series of anti-public employee union bills proposed in a number of states.

You would think Professor Cronon was apparently unaware of the New World Order taking shape in Wisconsin and Michigan and other states, a one-party dictatorship in which one does not question the official narrative. But that is not at all the case. Professor Cronon was quite aware of what was taking place in Wisconsin and as a scholar he attempted to examine those events from a scholarly, objective, and historical perspective.

He was, in short, doing what a scholar is supposed to do. The problem for Professor Cronon and others like him is that the GOP has already identified the “intelligentsia” (by which they seem to mean anybody with a higher than room-temperature IQ) as the “elite” and the “enemy”. Professor Cronon is especially guilty for being one of those evil “radical liberal” professors who are trying to reprogram our youth.

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Update:  Krugman is on this as well.  Cronon is a writer and researcher he much admires.

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