Go Walker! As soon as I saw the raw headline, I knew it would have come from Salon. They are a perfect reverse barometer, if they say anything, count on it being fallacious or corrupt.
The rabid far-left scares normal people; their outlandish, brutish behavior (and headlines/article like this one) push people into the Republican party. Their overreach is also scaring the Left’s leadership - the 4 month siege on Walker and Wisconsin’s Capitol (and the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprang from it) are not the optics that the Democratic Party wants in the 2016 general election - but Walker attracts their attacks like bees to honey - and it draws people out of the shadows to stand up and vote R. (Obama has been very helpful in this regard too.)