Michael Tomasky: “In a technique, you must be impressed by the Republicans. They maintain going additional and additional proper, utterly undeterred. They maintain in some way discovering these folks. And so they maintain elevating them. And now, MAGA Mike Johnson—a hard-core theocrat who’s, by way of his clearly deeply held philosophical beliefs, to Jim Jordan’s proper, and certainly maybe nicely to Jim Jordan’s proper—is 2 heartbeats away from the presidency, after having been elected Home speaker.”
“Nobody besides Capitol Hill reporters and people who find themselves such severe politics junkies that they need assistance had heard of Johnson till this week. I positive hadn’t.”
