'There's a line where cluelessness gives way to deliberately dangerous political posturing, and Johnson crossed it last week when he crashed a clown car full of quacks into the public health debate.'
Sen. Ron Johnson, the most notorious conspiracy theorist in the U.S. Senate, finally got something right.
He has been accused of spreading disinformation and misinformation. And the accusations have stuck. Fact-checking sites have catalogued the corrections of his false statements about the coronavirus pandemic, and about the proper responses to it. In my new book,"Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers" , I devote a chapter to Johnson, who emerged during the initial stages of the pandemic as such a steadily unreliable source of information that U.S. Rep.
When Republicans lost control of the U.S. Senate after the 2020 election, Johnson had to surrender the chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee—which he had made a go-to venue for fringe theorists of varying stripes. But losing the gavel has not stopped the Wisconsinite—who was recently called out by Listerine for suggesting that"standard gargle, mouthwash, has been proven to kill the coronavirus"—from peddling political snake oil.
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