'Abusive, dictatorial, tyrannical': Republicans ramp up attacks on lockdowns

Rep. Andy Harris is fed up with being locked down.

“They promised 2 million dead at the beginning of this,” Harris fumed to constituents during a recent teletown hall, later adding, “The media has a vested interest in making things sound worse so that you tune in the next day.”

The conservative Maryland Republican also joined a “reopen America” protest, where he delivered a fiery speech to a crowd of demonstrators without wearing a mask, and ripped into the restrictions at a congressional hearing last week, during which he lamented...