Does Donald Trump already have a scheme in place to steal the 2024 presidential election, which includes plans to use newly installed House Speaker Mike Johnson to make it all happen? Several events over the past few days seem to suggest so.
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In case you’re unaware, the once-Grand Ol’ Party is under siege and has been for years via a coup attempt by none other than Donald J. Trump. ‘The Donald’ saw a vulnerability within the ranks and has just about completely overtaken the Republican Party and turned it into his MAGA kingdom.
Let’s take a closer look at some of Trump’s latest work:
MIKE JOHNSON
Don’t let the smooth talk and down-home “folksy” demeanor fool you. To put it bluntly, newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is nothing but a religious extremist, election-denying, MAGA seditionist, bigot in sheep’s clothing.
One read of the article They Legitimized the Myth of a Stolen Election — and Reaped the Rewards from The New York Times and you’ll understand just how much of a rank seditionist and religious bigot Johnson really is in secret. For example, did you know that he was the spokesman for the Christian Nationalist group Alliance Defending Freedom? Are you aware that he led the fight in Congress to deny the certification of Joe Biden as president-elect in 2021 in favor of anointing Trump? Or, that he received an award from the Family Research Council for his staunch anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs?
Mike Johnson became the new House Speaker because Republicans were embarrassed at their own self-inflicted gridlock. They also caved to the pressures of Donald Trump and his MAGA lieutenants who put out the word that Johnson was Trump’s guy and the speaker he wanted.
— Rapidsloth (@Rapidsloth_) October 25, 2023
According to USA Today, Speaker Johnson is nothing but a calmer MAGA zealot and religious fanatic — and Americans should not be fooled by him:
If you care about democracy, or about abortion rights, or about the lives, freedoms, and well-being of LGBTQ+ friends and loved ones, this past week was important.
If you believe the 2020 presidential election was free and fair, as has been proven time and time and time again, this past week was important.
If you see former president and current criminal defendant Donald Trump and his MAGA movement as a dishonest, disingenuous threat to America, if you believe religion and politics shouldn’t mix, that we are not a theocracy, this past week was important.
It marked the end to the myth of the moderate House Republican and the party’s embrace of both Trump and a form of right-wing extremism voters have made clear they find unpalatable.
I implore you – young voters, older voters, and everyone in between – to pay attention.
His name recognition was low, his demeanor and bespectacled countenance far calmer than your traditional Trump-enthralled MAGA lawmaker. But his ascendance to second in line to the presidency represented a jaw-dropping GOP capitulation to right-wing extremism and showed every American that the party is Trump’s, and Trump’s alone.
Putting a figure like [Mike] Johnson – an election denialist and a key legal strategist in the effort to overturn President Joe Biden’s clear victory, a staunch abortion-rights opponent, a vocally anti-LGTBQ+ lawmaker – in power made a clear statement: There are no moderate Republicans in the House with power.
Pay attention, people. Don’t be fooled.
MIKE PENCE
In a nod to the power of Donald Trump (whom he himself helped to elevate), former VP Mike Pence announced over the weekend that he is “suspending” his campaign for president.
“It’s become clear to me: This is not my time,” Pence said at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual gathering in Las Vegas. “So after much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today.”
“We always knew this would be an uphill battle, but I have no regrets,” Pence told the audience, which reacted with audible surprise to the announcement.
Pence is now the first major candidate to leave the GOP race for president which has been dominated by his former boss-turned-rival, Donald Trump. A former vice president would typically be seen as a formidable challenger in any primary, but Pence has struggled to find a base of support. His struggles underscore just how much Trump has transformed the Republican Party.
DONALD TRUMP
If Donald Trump is somehow able to avoid jail long enough to be elected president in 2024, at least one prominent journalist believes that the fix is in to completely kill off democracy and for Trump and his MAGA Republicans to steal the presidency.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who hosts the popular Morning Joe broadcast, issued a dark warning about new House Speaker Mike Johnson and the future of American democracy.
“Why do you think Trump fought [Rep. Tom] Emmer so much?” Scarborough said. “He didn’t go along with the lie, the conspiracy. Yeah, these things are decided in the House. Donald Trump has his guy. He has the anti-democracy guy in the speaker’s chair.
“They’re all election deniers up there,” Scarborough continued. “They’re mad at the press for bringing up the fact that Donald Trump now has his tool to move us towards an autocratic state where democratic elections don’t matter. He’s already done it. He led the charge to overturn a presidential election. Yeah, we know what’s going to happen. We know all these presidential elections end up in the House. Donald Trump is thinking, ‘I got this.’
“They’ve already got this figured out,” he added. “They’ve got Donald Trump’s guy in there, and they’re going to steal this election in the House of Representatives with this speaker.
MAGA has already taken over the Republican Party. Is the fix already in for MAGA to take over American politics and permanently obliterate democracy?
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Mike Johnson, Donald Trump, and the MAGA fix.
New York Times: When Mike Johnson, the new House speaker, talks about race in America, he often draws a striking personal connection, telling the story of how he and his wife, Kelly, “took custody” of a Black teenager 24 years ago and raised him as a son. “I have walked with him through discrimination that he has had to endure over the years and the hurdles he sometimes faced,” he told a House committee in 2019, while testifying against reparations for slavery. “I know all this because I was with him.” When Mr. Johnson was named House speaker this week, his relationship with his son, like much of Mr. Johnson’s personal and political life, faced new scrutiny. There is no mention of the man, who is now an adult, raising his own family in California, in Mr. Johnson’s official biography. And he does not appear in the family photos posted… Read more »