Some encouraging blows for common sense were struck by primary voters to our north on Tuesday, on both sides of the aisle. But those looking for compelling evidence that uber-lefty politics won’t play in the Upper Midwest outside of gentrified urban neighborhoods and college towns won’t find it in Francesca Hong’s narrow defeat for the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin governor. The jury remains out on that question now that we’ve seen the highly anticipated test results in Michigan and Wisconsin following the democratic socialist takedowns of establishment Democrats in June in U.S. House races in New York City. The war for the soul of the Democratic Party continues. Meanwhile, in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Mike Lindell, MyPillow CEO and amplifier of the most absurd of MAGA’s many election-denying claims, was defeated convincingly in his bid for the GOP nomination for governor. His loss to Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth came despite the endorsement of President Donald Trump, the latest welcome example of Trump’s ironclad hold over the Republican Party loosening, if onl