A resurfaced tweet from 2015 recounts Wisconsin Senate candidate Mandela Barnes (D) as saying individuals supporting the belief in “God, country, and guns” is a “dangerous rhetoric” comparable to the group coordinating terrorist attacks in France several days prior. Other posts recall Barnes suggesting he “could not care less” about the right to bear arms and calling for the obstruction of capitalism in the face of climate change.
From Free Beacon:
Barnes made the comments in a Twitter post in November 2015, two days after terrorists carried out a string of coordinated attacks in France that killed 130 people. ISIS—which claimed at the time that it had established a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria—took credit for the attacks. "There are people in the legislature who feel a caliphate threat is real in America," said Barnes in a Nov. 16, 2015, post. "I try to remind them of their theocratic votes." "God, country, and guns is as dangerous of a rhetoric here as it is over there," added Barnes. The comments could fuel concerns over Barnes's fiery and often controversial social media posts. His opponent, Republican senator Ron Johnson, has slammed Barnes over posts praising Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and defending Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, which were first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
