Editorial: Ron Johnson's whitewash of the U.S. Capitol riot shows why Wisconsin's senior senator has to go
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
To hear Ron Johnson tell it, nothing much happened on Jan. 6 inside the U.S. Capitol.
Just a few bad apples got a little rowdy.
“This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me," the Oshkosh Republican told talk radio show host Jay Weber.
"I mean 'armed,' when you hear 'armed,' don’t you think of firearms? … How many firearms were confiscated? How many shots were fired?”
Johnson’s grasp on reality has been tenuous for years, but even more so since he aligned himself lockstep with former President Donald Trump.
Since Trump left office, two kinds of Republicans have emerged:
Those who want to purge Trump and his cult of white supremacists and conspiracy theorists from the party and those, like Johnson, who long for the return of their would-be king.
From the week the votes were cast last November, Johnson helped spread Trump’s lie that the election was stolen, helped perpetuate the myth that voter fraud cost the former president the election. Johnson used the levers of government to spread the lie, calling a bogus Senate hearing to “investigate” election “irregularities.”
In fact, this election, held during a deadly pandemic, was the "most secure in American history," according the nation's lead cybersecurity agency.
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http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/solutions/2021/02/18/ron-johnsons-whitewash-capitol-riot-shows-why-he-must-go/6774709002/
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