APPLETON, Wisconsin—Senator Ron Johnson was midway through a rambling speech on all that's wrong with America—his villains included runaway debt, the porous southern border, gender-affirming medical treatment, and FDR's New Deal—when he paused for a moment of self-reflection. "It's a huge mess," Johnson said of the country. "I really ought to have the people who introduce me warn audiences: I'm not the most uplifting character." A few people in the not-quite-packed crowd at the FreedomProject Academy, a drab, low-slung private school, chuckled. The 67-year-old Republican, stumping for a third term in the Senate, was speaking at an event that his campaign had not advertised to reporters. It was sponsored by an affiliate of the John Birch Society, the right-wing advocacy group now headquartered a mile down the road in Appleton. When attendees arrived, they found on their chairs a flyer promoting a six-week seminar on the Constitution. Part one? "The Dangers of Democracy." In the audience, several dozen mostly older, white conservatives seemed to share Johnson's sense of national doom. They nodded along as Johnson assailed journalists ("highly biased" advocates who "lie with impunity") and teachers ("leftists"), as he accused President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats of "fundamentally destroying this… Read full this story
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