The Folksy Fanaticism of Mike Johnson.
If Johnson is a mystery man to the world at large, to the power brokers of the religious right his new role is no surprise. They've been grooming Johnson for this position for many years.
Johnson's path to power...
https://jwz.org/b/ykFt
Wow, this article went pretty far into the kooky conspiracy theory realm.
Sadly, people really don't understand how US legislative bodies actually operate--or what their own elected representatives are doing, but that's a side point--and so they end up believing these mythical descriptions of officials wielding powers that they simply don't have.
The guy's Speaker of the House after Democrats chose a voting strategy that all but guaranteed such a Speaker, but that's not such a big deal because the Speaker is not all-powerful.
And the Speaker *certainly* doesn't get to decide whether votes for president are counted or not.
This breathlessness is just fearmongering.
