The day after Mike Johnson was elected House speaker, the editorial board of The New York Times published a good summary of the Louisiana Republican’s radicalism on a wide range of issues. But in passing, the editors touched on an underappreciated point about the GOP’s trajectory. There are no credible questions about Johnson’s ideology.
On everything from abortion rights to climate change, LGBTQ+ rights to the separation of church and state, Johnson is well to the right of McCarthy. Who was to the right of Paul Ryan. Who was to the right of John Boehner. There’s a school of thought in American politics that parties pursue course-corrections in the wake of electoral setbacks.
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