OPINION
Could the Gold Standard Save Speaker Johnson?
By Ralph Benko
Friday, 03 May 2024 12:22 PM EDT
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Nobody can legitimately doubt Mike Johnson’s conservative credentials. He is a true believer in the biblical Creationist, “young Earth,” narrative, rejecting the (now prevailing) Darwinian Theory of Evolution. Johnson's position is that the Earth, and the universe, is around 6,000, rather than 4.5 billion, years old.
That’s not merely conservative. That’s pre-modern, well to the right of most of even the most vociferous MAGAs. (See: the Scopes Monkey Trial, wherein creationist William Jennings Bryan sang his swansong.)
This does not undermine Johnson’s pragmatism or arithmetical ability. He knows what can and cannot be accomplished with a precarious one-vote majority.
He has solid judgment about what will advance or retard the conservative cause. Yet despite his pristine conservatism, his excellent discernment, and his remarkable political agility, Mike Johnson is in a pickle.
Some of the House’s 15 MAGA fanatics (not to be confused with conservatives) are proposing to defenestrate him from the office of Speaker. They are angry at the failure to make progress in balancing the federal budget.
It would be politically and philosophically catastrophic to pry the gavel from Johnson’s hands. Yet ... they have a valid point.
Here’s how Johnson can escape the pickle jar.
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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/ralphbenko/mike-johnson-gold-standard/2024/05/03/id/1163401/
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