The DSA is as bad at revisionist history as it is at affordability. WI was run by Democrats from statehood until shortly after it invented the Republican Party. Then from 1855 until 1900 it was solidly R. It largely remained R for the next 47 years with frequent battles fought between the stalwart and progressive wings of the party. During this period the socialists managed to occasionally elect a member or two who would go to Madison and sing the praises of the newly formed Soviet Union. For a brief period in the early 1930s, the furthest left progressives would debate them, arguing that Germany’s approach to socialism was superior to that of the Russians. Some of these pro-German progressives still have buildings named after them at the UW. In 46 the progressives collapsed and the Ds and Rs spent 3 decades competing until the Ds became dominant post Watergate. The state shifted back to a competitive D/R paradigm in 94 and it has persisted ever since. Socialism never worked in Wisconsin despite this new fashioned DSA fairytale, although many of the state’s largest policy failures originate with Democrats sympathetic to socialism.