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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, October 27, 2023

Vetting Is Important

 The rapid emergence of Mike Johnson (R-Gilead) came very quickly and lacked a great deal of third party vetting. Most people are focusing on Johnson's fairly extreme theocratic rhetoric and beliefs and rightly so. Josh Marshall, however, has wondered about the story surrounding Johnson's "adopted" Black son.

I idly wondered about whether Johnson is having an affair with a male staffer, given how virulently anti-gay he is. The closets of fundamentalists Christians are usually crowded places. But the idea that he's got some sort of relationship with this person named Michael is...odd.

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