Primary Numbskullery

If you are rubbed the wrong way by the Democratic Party’s penchant for declaring winners of primary elections before voters cast their ballots and have their preferences counted, don’t take it lying down. Send a message. Register your dissatisfaction.

There are still candidates other than the presumptive nominee who are actively campaigning for the party’s nomination for Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate seat, including Millennial Action Project founder Steve Olikara. Olikara’s young, energetic, principled, an out-of-the-box thinker who’s a fountain of fresh ideas, just what the Democrats sorely need but for some odd reason avoid like the plague.

In today’s print edition of The Capital Times, former state appeals judge Paul Higginbotham makes a compelling case for Olikara’s candidacy. He starts by emphasizing that he’s running to change the system, pointing to his commitment to making a bill ending legalized bribery, banning fundraising while Congress is in session and creating open primaries and…