Wisconsin GOP takes a wrong turn with Brandtjen

Beware: Nationally and locally, a revived GOP establishment wants to purge the party of movement conservatives

The old party is dead. Time to bury it. Build something new.—Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley

Both the Wisconsin and national Republican parties are moving in exactly the wrong direction after their dismal showing in the mid-term elections: Misreading the tea leaves, the party establishment, having spent seven years cowering in the corner, now wants …