In both cases, people voted for competency over failure, science over ideology, empathy over bigotry, and inclusive diversity over encrusted homogeneity.
Trump's damage is certainly more indelible than Walker's. Both will take years to repair. Some will be permanent, but now we have a fighting chance for cleaner air, broader health care coverages, justice in the streets and in the system.
Remember, for example, that Walker never pardoned a single deserving rehabilitated former inmate; Evers has done it dozens of times.
And the scorched-earth-lame-duck-dirty tricks the White House will unleash are sure to make the Vos-Fitzgerald-Walker power-grabs look minor by comparison.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying we're out of the woods by any means.
But let's focus on the opportunities we didn't have last week -
- or for most of the last decade in Wisconsin, and props to voters here for twice in four years saying "No" to undemocratic, bigoted poisonously-partisan right-wing governance.