'Republicans are nervous': Some in GOP eye protests warily

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The latest demonstration by right-wing groups against measures to contain the coronavirus is headed for Wisconsin, where hundreds of people or more plan to descend on the state Capitol to protest the Democratic governor's stay-home ordinance.

Friday's event is expected to be among the biggest of the protests that have popped up around the U.S. in recent days. But as with some earlier events, one group will be noticeably absent: the state's most prominent Republicans.

That includes Sen. Ron Johnson, a Trump ally, who says he'll be sheltering in place at home in Oshkosh about 90 miles from Madison.

“I’m neither encouraging nor discouraging them,” said Johnson, 65, whose career was launched by the tea party movement, a protest effort with ties to the current one. He urged anyone who decides to attend the protest to practice good personal hygiene and social distancing.

https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-nervous-gop-eye-protests-044436889.html

They should be nervous.

[tanyev]

1. I hope that fence you're sitting on is pointy and painful, Sen. Johnson.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. tRump has already driven Greed Over People past the guardrail and over the cliff. . . . nt

[Laelth]

3. Yes. They should be. n/t

-Laelth

[Roland99]

4. Funded by DeVos and Mercer? This is all on them

[Tom Rinaldo]

5. "I'm neither encouraging nor discouraging them,"

Now there's real leadership

[gratuitous]

9. Mega-dittoes

I was about to make this post verbatim.

[TeamPooka]

6. "I'm neither encouraging nor discouraging them," The Modern Republican Profile In Courage

what a coward

[Baked Potato]

7. If he farts wrong, they'll be in front of HIS house, can't have that.

[KayF]

8. they are GOP protests

whether they say they are encouraging or discouraging them publicly, they are organizing them behind the scenes.