Michigan Republicans have a long history of being on the wrong side of many of the issues the citizens of Michigan care most about. From education to privatizing essential government services like prisons and schools, they have invariably sided with the corporatists who stand to benefit most from shifting tax dollars to corporate bank accounts. I thought I had seen them at their worst when they passed the what Rachel Maddow called “THE most radical Republican experiment in the 21st Century”, Michigan’s odious Emergency Manager Law and when they formed the school district for wayward Detroit schools — the Education Achievement Authority — and then put the extraordinary grifter John Covington in charge with the predictably tragic results.