Madison, every time I think you’ve shown me everything,  I find out I’m wrong.

In the hours following the Wisconsin Senate’s rushed efforts to strip collective bargaining rights from public workers, thousands descended upon the Capitol, surrounding the building until the doors flung up and people came rushing inside carrying signs, musical instruments and boxes of food.

After it had taken the state Department of Administration days to return normalcy to the building, protesters reclaimed it in a matter of minutes, celebrating inside with chants like, “Who’s house? Our house!” and “We’re not leaving!”

And, despite early claims that protesters had broken Capitol windows, the protesters once again assembled peacefully, proving the Legislature can ram through an unpopular bill in record time, but it can’t keep the people of Wisconsin out of their house.