“Speaker” Mike Johnson’s personal and financial scandals are exploding already
When Mike Johnson became Speaker, I predicted that we’d quickly learn he was hiding serious financial and personal scandals. Sure enough, he claims he has no bank accounts, he was allegedly the dean of a right wing law school that never existed, and he has a secret adopted son.
When I made this prediction I didn’t know anything you didn’t know, but it was frankly an easy prediction to make. Right wing politicians pretty much always have these kinds of scandals. Part of the reason is that right wingers in general tend to use their pretend right wing version of Christianity to justify any awful thing they want to do (part of why actual Christians find right wing “Christians” so offensive and blasphemous).
It’s also a cold hard reality that while political scandals exist on the left, right, and center, the right wing is the only place where scandals don’t seem to matter to voters. All that matters to the right wingers in Mike Johnson’s district is that he says the right hateful things, and they don’t care if he’s a creep or he’s stealing their money.
Mike Johnson is merely the latest ambitious right wing dummy who forgot that while right wingers didn’t care about his basement full of skeletons because they only elected him to spite normal people to begin with, normal people care about these scandals very much. Johnson should have stayed in his lane. Now he’s in the real world, not the psychotic fantasy world known as right wing politics.
So now Johnson’s time as Speaker won’t consist of building his influence or advancing his party’s agenda. It’ll mainly consist of playing defense on these kinds of scandals. And there will be more Mike Johnson scandals. This is just what the media could dig up in the first week.
How do we fight Mike Johnson? We use the tools available to us. He’s obviously hiding a financial scandal, and he has a suspicious personal scandal. That’s all you need to fight this guy with. You don’t want to hyperbolically overstate his scandals. Conspiracy theories are not your friend. Don’t make things up that are not in evidence. But you want to ask why he’s hiding his bank accounts, and why he’s lying about the timeline involving his adopted son.
You shouldn’t just make up the answers to these questions. That’s not honest. And it’s not effective, because then you sound like a conspiracy theorist in the eyes of the average person. But keep asking the questions. Johnson’s ongoing failure to adequately answer the questions will be his downfall.
As long as Mike Johnson has to spend every day fending off mounting questions about his personal and financial scandals, he won’t be able to use his position as Speaker to do any of the corrupt and extremist things he wants to do. We just have to force him to keep playing defense until we take the House majority from him.
