Analysis: Who is Mike Johnson — And Why Does He Hate Women, LGBTQ People and Science?
thegavoice.comIt took more than three weeks and many attempts, but the Republican Party finally elected a new Speaker of the House, Louisiana representative Mike Johnson.
The three-term former attorney for far-right causes has the least political and executive experience of any Speaker in a century.
But he checked all the far-right boxes for the increasingly more extremist GOP while also being a “nice” guy, so elected he was.
Rogue Freedom Caucus member Matt Gaetz, whose personal beef with Kevin McCarthy got McCarthy ousted as Speaker after only 10 months, said of Johnson, “If you don’t think that moving from Kevin McCarthy to MAGA Mike Johnson shows the ascendance of this movement and where the power in the Republican Party truly lies, then you’re not paying attention.” Paying attention is critical in this looming election year.
