Election denier, climate skeptic, anti-abortion: seven beliefs of new US House speaker Mike Johnson

[Eugene]

Election denier, climate skeptic, anti-abortion: seven beliefs of new US House speaker Mike Johnson (The Guardian)

The relatively little-known Louisiana Republican has been thrust into the spotlight and the attention has fallen on his extreme beliefs

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In the modern Republican party, supporting Donald Trump’s lie about voter fraud in his defeat by Joe Biden is hardly an outlandish position. But Johnson took it further.

After the election, he voiced support for Trump’s conspiracy theory that voting machines were rigged. Later, he was one of 147 Republicans to object to results in key states, even after a pro-Trump mob attacked Congress on January 6, a riot now linked to nine deaths and hundreds of convictions.

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Before entering politics, Johnson worked for the Alliance Defending Freedom – designated a hate group by the Southern Law Poverty Center, which tracks US extremists.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-house-speaker-election-denier-climate-anti-abortion

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/election-denier-climate-skeptic-anti-192926260.html

[sabbat hunter]

1. He also

wants to ban gay sex.



https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/mike-johnson-gay-sex-criminalization-kfile/index.html

[patphil]

2. He's a Pseudospiritual, Right-wing, Fundamentalist Anti-Christian.

Essentially a Christo-fascist.
2 heartbeats away from the oval office.
It couldn't get much worse.