Three Republican senators spoke Tuesday about the weaponization of government and related problems in Congress on a panel at the National Conservatism Conference in the nation’s capital.
The panel, hosted by former Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., featured Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Texas; Mike Lee, R-Utah; and Rick Scott, R-Fla.
DeMint began the discussion by saying that the weaponization of government against political opponents has reached an “unprecedented level during the Biden administration.”
The former South Carolina senator said the issue has percolated for a long time as the federal bureaucracy has been “taking more power,” but that President Joe Biden’s administration has brought the problem to the level of a Third World country.
The Left tries to couch its use of weaponized government as upholding the “rule of law,” Lee said.
“But what they mean…
