Ron Johnson’s Solution to the Childcare Crisis: Have Moms on Government Assistance Take Care of Everyone’s Kids

Something you may have picked up on during the decade-plus that he’s been in office is that Senator Ron Johnson is a dangerous moron. Early in his career, he claimed in an interview that members of ISIS could be purposely infecting themselves with Ebola and then coming to the United States to spread it. The following year, he introduced legislation “directing the federal government to prepare to protect critical infrastructure against threats of electromagnetic pulse…and geomagnetic disturbances,” a favorite conspiracy theory of the far right. On climate change, he’s said the scientific consensus is “bullshit,” that experts who attribute the… Read Full Article