Sen. Ron Johnson is getting out and about as his very tight election is on the horizon. He has made a grand ol’ career of lying and promoting terrible big business policies that harm not only his constituents in Wisconsin, but every American across the nation. In recent months, Johnson has flipped back and forth on issues so frenetically one could probably use him as an oscillating fan.
Just a few weeks ago, Johnson touted his endorsement from Border Patrol union president and conspiracy theory peddling extremist, Brandon Judd. It wasn’t a surprise that Johnson would be proud aligning himself with racists and xenophobes—it’s the GOP brand these days. On Tuesday, Johnson went on Fox Business to speak with alleged personalities on that network, and accidentally gave the world a grand ol’ slip of the tongue while discussing white supremacy.
RELATED STORY: Sen. Ron Johnson seems to have been caught red-handed by Jan. 6 committee with fraudulent docs
It is time we got rid of senators like Ron Johnson. Help donate to the democrats who are running against Johnson and other GOP fascists if you can.
In the clip below, you can see Johnson saying that one of his colleagues at Homeland Security used bring up the threat of “white supremacy” all the time, back when Johnson was the chairman of the Homeland Security committee. (He also tries to make it sound like he ran Homeland Security, of course.) Johnson goes on to explain, “And my ranking member would always be bringing up white supremacy which, you know, I condone… I, I mean, I condemn.”
In Ron Johnson’s defense, he’s a crap person, a terrible politician, and shouldn’t have been elected head of a household, let alone the Senate. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel joked about the clip, calling the Senator’s use of words a “Fraudian slip.” Both work, in my opinion.
Enjoy.
Trump and his followers proved on Jan. 6 how dangerously close they came to overturning our democracy. Help cancel Republican voter suppression with the power of your pen by clicking here and signing up to volunteer with Vote Forward, writing personalized letters to targeted voters urging them to exercise their right to vote this year.
Pssst. Want to learn how competitive your House district is? Daily Kos Elections just released a massive new data set that breaks down the results of the 2020 presidential election for every last one of the nation's new congressional districts, so we're dissecting on The Downballot what it all means with longtime DKE writer Stephen Wolf. Wolf explains why these numbers closely predict the outcome of most House elections, how they show the way in which the overall playing field has grown even more tilted toward Republicans, what the most evenly divided district in the country is, and much more.
RELATED STORIES:
Ron Johnson has a new proposal for killing Social Security and Medicare
Ron Johnson touts endorsement from group led by white nationalist conspiracy theory peddler
