The Republican Party and its far-right base are, if anything, predictable. Their strategy basically boils down to one trope: “Accuse the other of that you are guilty.” That this is a quote attributed to Joseph Goebbels should come as no surprise, especially in learning about Mike Johnson’s creepy relationship with his son.
The newly elected House speaker is an election-denying, anti-LGBTQ, Christian nationalist who once claimed that school shootings could be blamed on abortion and teaching evolution (source: Rolling Stone), so you know there’s got to be some profoundly weird shit going on under the hood.
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