The era of the 'Handmaid' speaker has begun
PLUS: Why Donald Trump is to blame for rise in support of political violence
There is a new speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
His name is Mike Johnson. He is 51 years old, from Louisiana and is materially different from Kevin McCarthy. Perhaps the best way to understand this point is by appreciating how cynicism can fuel fanaticism. Kevin believed in nothing but power, while Johnson sees power as a means to impose his fanaticism.
How should we think about and measure the temperature of the extremism swirling? Should it be by the temperature of the rhetoric, the intimations towards violence or perhaps even the violence itself?
Maybe one measurement should be the proximity of a man who believes you shouldn’t get to pick the president of the United States with a vote in an election, but he should decide how you live in the bedroom. He is a legitimate authoritarian, and now he is second in line to the one office that could destroy the American republic if properly weaponized.
The era of the ‘Handmaid’ speaker has begun. The segregationists have sent forward one of their descendants polished up a bit. What a disgrace. What a disaster.
It’s a good thing that the American people can still do something about it.
Vote them out.
In the meantime, enjoy reading how this fanatic feels about my gay sister and her partner. I know one thing for sure. I know who the better people are. Here’s who Mike Johnson is:
Video commentary: Why Donald Trump is to blame for rise in support of political violence
I react to a very disturbing survey released by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Brookings Institution showing that nearly a quarter of Americans believe they may need to resort to political violence in order to save the country. I lay out why, ultimately, there is one person to blame for this finding: Donald Trump.
Is there really a difference between any of these GQP wing-nuts?
McCarthy was a Trump, boot-licking sycophant, election denying , J6th flip-flopping man of little, to no conviction, who apparently couldn’t keep his bunch of petulant five-year old’s in line.
Johnson, is the a true believer. A religiously fanatical wing-nut, through and through, who is the perfect example of why abortion should be legal in the US.
Is there really any difference between any one of them? McCarthy wrote checks he couldn’t cash and was despised by everyone; democrats and republicans alike. You couldn’t trust him.
Johnson? Well I’ve actually never heard of him before, but from what I know today, he may be the saving grace for democrats in 24’.
More reasons suburban moms and pro-choice advocates need to get out the vote. Personally, as far as republican speakers go, it doesn’t matter.
Bottom line: the entire caucus is a shit show of the most ignorant and obtuse religious zealots ever assembled before Congress, and any one of them is bad news.
So pick your poison, because each offers only death; some quicker than others, but all a slow, painful death to democracy by a thousand cuts.
I know we’ve all said this before, but this election is a game changer. So vote and make sure every unregistered person you know, gets registered and does their civic duty.
Otherwise, this nation will truly get what it deserves; good and hard.....:)
“That’s nice”, we have a person who is such a delusional Christo-fascist that he believes being homosexual is a choice. That kind of thinking belongs in the third century not in the 21st century. Vote blue.