Meet Mike Johnson, Republicans’ new House speaker.

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.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Some might, but most of them know it’s a tool. Remember how quickly they fell in line after Trump became the nominee in 2016? They have a personality cult that they can exploit. Some of them might also be able to justify it to themselves as it being “stolen” because the wrong types of people (read: black folks and women) were allowed to vote.

      Trump was a tool that let them pack the courts and massively shift public discourse. Republicans in Congress probably all know he’s full of shit, but he also got Roe overturned.

      • cricket97@lemmy.world
        13·
        1 year ago

        Remember how quickly they fell in line after Trump became the nominee in 2016?

        Republicans establishment hated trump during his 2016 run up and did whatever they could to not let him succeed. Not sure what you are on about.

          • cricket97@lemmy.world
            13·
            1 year ago

            isn’t that pretty par for the course? you support your own side? democrats became team biden too, even though they hated him during the primaries.