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The Nightmare that is the House Speaker Mike Johnson
Sam Goldman talks with writer Sarah Posner about Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of
the House, third in line to the presidency and Christian Nationalist
who spent around a decade as a lawyer with Alliance Defending Freedom
(sic), the organization behind the recent wave of state level
anti-abortion legislation, the 303 Creative SCOTUS case, and on the
wrong side of many other battles.
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Sarah Posner:
He was willing to go to the mat for Trump on the stolen election lies. He thinks there's no separation of church and state. He thinks that God ordained government. He thinks that government should be run from a biblical worldview. He thinks that abortion should be criminalized. He thinks that same-sex sex should be criminalized. I would say that his track record on supporting Trump is very troubling, combined with the fact that he believes that as Speaker of the House he's carrying out God's will.
Sam Goldman:
The chaos wrought by the most hardcore MAGA fascists like Matt Gaetz paid off. They held the line and won. Preventing governing, chaos, was part of the point FOR SURE. But it had a specific purpose, it was in the service of fascist program they are trying to consolidate. Which includes getting Trump back into the White House and into power. If there remained any question that Donald Trump and MAGA forces still dominate the GOP nearly three years after he lost the 2020 election Johnson installation should put that to rest...It is beyond ominous shit that the third in line for presidency is a raging theocrat and its time we stop being surprised. Stop pre-emptively writing and sharing obituaries for Christian Nationalism or Trumpism or yea even Trump. Because these zombies mean death.
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