By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive

June 7, 2012

Spare me the spin. This was a whupping.

After sixteen months of the most historic and exciting citizens’ uprising that I’ve ever been a part of in my thirty-five years of progressive activism and journalism, we’re left with this disaster.

Scott Walker is governor for another two and a half years.

He claims vindication for his rightist onslaught.

The national rightwing media is carrying him around on their shoulders.

And the Koch Brothers are popping the expensive champagne.

Meanwhile, the movement-a real giant grassroots movement, which flooded the capitol square with more than 100,000 people and which gathered a million recall signatures-is disintegrating.