“This wasn’t what this interview was going to be about,” a flustered Ron Johnson said to CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins.
When asked Monday about Republicans in Wisconsin having falsely claimed to be electors for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) claimed that Democrats have done the same “repeatedly in all kinds of different states”—yet failed to provide even one example, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins merely to “check the books.”
On The Source, Collins mentioned how 10 Republicans in Johnson’s state settled a lawsuit last week that was brought by Wisconsin’s legitimate electors, who had sought $200,000 from each elector. Though no fine was handed down, each elector admitted that Joe Biden won the election and agreed to not be an elector in 2024 or any election in which Donald Trump was a candidate. They also agreed that by posing as electors, they were “part of an attempt to improperly overturn” the election results.
I recently saw a comment to the effect of “democrats want power to be distributed latterally, while republicans want it in the form of an absolute heirarchy.”
Big “that thing that guy said” vibes over here indeed.
That’s genuinely all there is to conservatism. Your tribe is good. Your leaders are right. People should know their place. Right-wing politics only exist as an expression of that default human worldview.
So it’s impossible for someone above you to simply be wrong. They must be undeserving of their position. Disagreement is a personal attack. Who are you to call them a liar?, where’s your billion dollars?, etc., etc., etc.