Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key “architect” in Congress’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.
Johnson finally secured the speaker’s gavel after Republican infighting left the House without a speaker for 22 days. He secured 220 votes.
Johnson is a four-term congressman representing Louisiana. His win also represents the rise of the MAGA front in the Republican Party. Earlier Wednesday morning, Donald Trump endorsed Johnson as House speaker—after quickly killing Mike Emmer’s nomination the day before.
Not only went back on, but went on media programs blaming Democrats for everything even when it was the Freedom Caucus doing it. Even if McCarthy made a deal with them, there was no way that the Democrats could trust that he’d uphold his end of the deal.
But it’s not about the balance of the deal, it’d be helping the moderate Republicans from voting in, well, this guy.
Besides, I think it would have been politically embarrassing to be saved by the Democrats.
Who the fuck cares if it appeases his base while keeping whatever semblance of sanity is left in the house.