Sunday, November 5, 2023

As Republicans embrace theocratic authoritarianism, the political media is tongue-tied | Press Watch

As Republicans embrace theocratic authoritarianism, the political media is tongue-tied | Press Watch

• 20 Not-Fun Facts About Speaker Mike Johnson: Here are some not very fun facts we’ve learned about the guy Republicans barely know, but decided to make leader of the House and second in line to the presidency. (New York Magazinesee also As Republicans embrace theocratic authoritarianism, the political media is tongue-tied: Corporate media seems to lack the vocabulary to accurately describe the modern Republican Party. The latest example, of course, is the election of a new Speaker of the House: Mike Johnson, an insurrectionist anti-gay right-wing extremist Trump proxy. Those words accurately describe the little-known congressman from Louisiana. In fact, they’re quite restrained. It would be even more accurate to call him a bigoted Christofascist member of the Trump cult willing to end democracy as we know it. (Press Watch)

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