Matt Gaetz Celebrates Mike Johnson: 'MAGA Is Ascendant!'

By Conover Kennard — October 25, 2023

Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson, a vocal and consistent defender of former President Donald Trump, might look normal compared to the other MAGA Republicans seeking the House Speakership while their crazy eyes spin around like dice in their heads. But don't let that fool you.

On Steve Bannon's War Room Podcast, Gaetz said, "Louisiana Mike Johnson, a brilliant constitutional attorney."

"We have worked against the illegitimate impeachments against the weaponization of this government," he insisted.

Gaetz claimed that "the swamp is on the run; Maga is ascendant!"

Sure thing, buddy. Americans have grown tired of MAGA extremists. MAGA is in its death throes. Don't believe me? Their leader is facing 91 felonies.

Johnson told Tucker Carlson that Nancy Pelosi committed a felony by tearing up a speech. But, you know, all of Trump's actual crimes are OK. He would gladly rip away bodily autonomy from women with a smile on his face. He's that kind of a guy.

From 2020:

I have just called President Trump to say this: "Stay strong and keep fighting, sir! The nation is depending upon your resolve. We must exhaust every available legal remedy to restore Americans' trust in the fairness of our election system."

— Rep. Mike Johnson (@RepMikeJohnson) November 7, 2020

Hey, ladies, this chud thinks we're just vessels to create "able-bodied workers." A woman's right to make decisions about her own body is very popular.

Here is Mike Johnson railing against Roe v. Wade, arguing that if women were forced to give birth to more “able-bodied workers,” Republicans wouldn’t try to cut Social Security and Medicare pic.twitter.com/RN5FPNlvon

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) October 25, 2023

He wants to take away your hard-earned social security benefits.

Leader Jeffries: Mike Johnson voted to overturn the 2020 election. He wants to end Social Security and Medicare as we know it. He, probably more than any other member of the House GOP, wants to impose a nationwide abortion ban pic.twitter.com/CJqXjiQiW2

— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) October 25, 2023

He thinks you have a bad memory and won't remember this:

Important context: NYT calls the new Republican Speaker designee Mike Johnson "the most important architect of the Electoral College objections" in 2021.

Legal experts, including the House GOP leadership's own lawyer, determined that Johnson's arguments were spurious.

Yet about…

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 25, 2023

So, we are going to have a Speaker who tried to overturn the 2020 election, wants to impeach Biden, wanted to shut down the govt last month, cut off aid to Ukraine, and opposes gay marriage. Good luck to House Republicans in swing districts next year.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 25, 2023

He's a MAGA Republican, not a moderate, and he needs to be swept to the curb. Everything Gaetz said to elevate Johnson, isn't popular with the American people. If it was, the Republican party would be a well-oiled machine instead of a misogynistic, homophobic, sadistic circus with nothing to offer.

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