More Proof That Ron Johnson Is Making Wisconsin A National Embarrassment

     Ron Johnson has always been an embarrassment to his constituents. The only statewide elected GOP official in the state of Wisconsin, his first entrance on the national political scene was opposing a bill that would remove the statute of limitations on child sex crimes. 

     He had already lost a sizeable chunk of his support by 2016, and now the vast majority (55 to 65 percent) of Wisconsinites support anybody but Ron in 2022. Apparently set on a presidential run (he announced he would not run for governor in 2022, and a senator suddenly taking drastic actions to get attention is a certain presidential primary candidate), he ramped up his idiotic behavior between 2020 and 2021.

     Johnson, a long climate change denier, has questioned the legitimacy of COVID-19 advice given by public health officials. While positive for COVID, he was one of two Republican officials to draw attention for being gross when he attended a fundraiser (the other was Glenn Grothman, who went viral for hacking during a hearing). He voted for the first two stimulus bills under Trump, but, in 2021, became a leading voice against the American Rescue Plan Act. Suddenly, the man who gave tax cuts to corporations like his plastic manufacturing company was worried about the deficit. To achieve his sabotage, he placed a measure before the Senate to read the entire bill out loud, which failed after Ron Johnson and the other Republicans didn't show up and Democrats simply limited debate time to three hours.

     As more details continue to emerge about the Capitol insurrection, Johnson has continued to call the mob that injured 150 police officers "patriots" who "care about their country" while voting against a commission that could prove that if it were remotely true. He continues to claim that it didn't "seem like an armed insurrection" while spreading the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

     He's opposing the American Jobs and Tax Plan Act, too, which has nearly 70 percent support among the American people. When Vice President Kamala Harris toured UW-Milwaukee with Gwen Moore and Tammy Baldwin, he called the bill a "boondoggle." He used the same word to describe the ARPA; I wish he could at least be more creative than using a century-old term popularized by boy scouts.

     Back in 2020, while Rand Paul was defending lynching on the Senate floor, Ron Johnson stopped Juneteenth from becoming a national holiday. Apparently, he was still opposed this year, but he decided to vote for it because nobody cared what little old Ron Johnson from Wisconsin had to say. He was the sole opponent in a 50-50 Senate, and Wisconsinites didn't forget. Johnson actually had the nerve to show up at a Juneteenth festival in Milwaukee, and, after a few minutes of booing and heckling, he decided to leave.

     Maybe Ron Johnson should avoid Milwaukee altogether. That wouldn't help him too much, though. His antics are seen by tens of millions of people across the country, and "FRJ" has become such a force nationally that it is the only thing close to a serious reply Johnson gets on policy issues and it is number one in search results when the acronym is typed in Google.

     Simply put, Ron Johnson is a national embarrassment, especially compared to fellow Wisconsin senator Tammy Baldwin, and 2022 needs to be the year his political career ends for good.