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Maybe we'll forgive, but we won't forget

Maybe we'll forgive, but we won't forget

The real villains of the Trump era are those who should know better

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Oct 20, 2020
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Before Donald Trump remade the Grand Old Party in his own image, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson was what would probably come to mind if you were asked to think “generic Republican.” A former businessman with socially and economically conservative ideas, but not so crazy that you couldn’t work with him across the aisle.

That was then. This is Ron Johnson in 2020:

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