Mike Johnson can put the right optics on far-right policy.
Republicans in the House of Representatives finally broke their deadlock on Wednesday. It was the middle of the afternoon. And after three weeks of leaderless chaos, Louisiana’s Mike Johnson took the gavel to become speaker of the House. If you’re wondering,offered a lot to think about. Johnson offered a personal biography, speaking about his dad, who was a firefighter. He talked a lot about God.
Yeah, I went to the Louisiana GOP convention a couple of months ago now to cover it for the Bulwark. And this is a very MAGA crowd. And Johnson’s remarks were very well received. And he’s articulate and sounded intelligent. Louie Gohmert had also spoken at this thing; he didn’t sound like Louie Gohmert.
I think it was “make” in the short term, but I think that they run a very big risk of “break” by next year. Let me explain why. Back when I was a Republican, we used to use the specter of Nancy Pelosi to really hurt suburban Democratic candidates and certainly red-state Democratic candidates. Like, so-and-so from Georgia voted 92 percent of the time with a San Francisco liberal who wants to do all these far-left things—30-second ads, they write themselves.
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