“Sen. Ron Johnson preached unity and positivity to the party faithful at the state Republican convention on Saturday, painting Dems as an angry party bent on fundamentally changing America. Johnson said he’s ‘more panicked’ than ever about the state of the country, having run for the first time in 2010 based on the same fears. Johnson defeated Wisconsin Democratic folk hero Russ Feingold in 2010 and again in 2016, outperforming Donald Trump when the former president won Wisconsin – the first GOP presidential candidate to do so since 1984. ‘The leaders of the left talk about fundamentally transforming this nation. Do you even like, much less love, something you want to fundamentally transform? America’s not perfect; we had that original sin from slavery, but we’ve made progress. We’ve continuously improved. That’s not good enough for the left.'”

“Johnson has not yet announced whether he will seek a third term, but took the stage to chants of ‘six more years!’ He told supporters the Republican Party’s mission statement should be ‘to unify, unite and heal this nation.’ ‘We’re not going to do that by being angry. We’re not going to do that by imitating what (liberals) do, by being nasty,’ Johnson said. ‘We’re going to do that by allowing light to pierce the darkness.’ Johnson cited several examples of recent confrontations as evidence that the left has grown increasingly angry, including a man who approached him on an airplane, got in his face and called him a ‘disgrace,’ and a woman who followed him through the Milwaukee airport making the same statement. The senator also referenced Milwaukee’s Juneteenth celebration, where he said he had a generally positive experience but was booed and shouted at by a small group of ‘incredibly profane and nasty’ people as he spoke to the press” – Wisconsin Capital Times.