Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson has made it clear he’s not interested in actually legislating if he’s elected to the United States Senate (emphasis mine):
Indeed, Johnson and Anderson are already talking about what kind of senator he would be. Anderson presented the two options: legislator or messenger. “I will be a messenger,” he says, pointing to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) as a kind of guiding star in the Senate.
This is what makes the outcome of this election so intriguing. If Johnson and others like him win, they seem less interested in plunging into specific legislation and more inclined to wage a philosophical messaging war to change the GOP and the nature of governance. Asked what innovative ideas he might push in office, Johnson didn’t talk of tax reform or private Social Security accounts, or of anything a conventional senator might do.
Instead, he committed himself to a “re-education of America”
So let’s recap: instead of actually doing his job as a legislator, if elected to the United States Senate Ron Johnson would instead make it his mission to “re-educate” America. The last time I checked, “re-educating” America wasn’t in the job description of a U.S. Senator, and I’m willing to bet if a Democrat said something along the same lines as what Johnson said, conservatives would no doubt be gnashing their collective teeth as they called said Democrat a threat to the nation (or something along those lines).
There’s no denying this year’s election is important. As a nation we have no shortage of serious problems to try and find solutions for, and it should be more than a little disturbing to any informed voter that Ron Johnson is less interested in finding solutions to those problems and is instead more interested in waging a philosophical message war and “re-educating” America.
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