Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he will not be intimidated by mob tactics or protesters, comments that come after a protester interrupted his dinner Friday at a Louisville restaurant.

“I’m not sure exactly what in my career suggests I would be easily swayed by such a spectacle,” McConnell wrote in a piece published in the Courier-Journal on Tuesday. “The reality is simple: I will not be intimidated. But this issue is not really about me, or about any individual elected official. It’s about something larger: The mob mentality that is being systematically fed and encouraged by the far left all across our nation.”