Mike Johnson, He’ll Take You Down But He Won’t Prop You Up
A message to the far right in the House
The Republican Party may be Donald Trump, but he is not the Republican Party, not when he loses. When you pledge your souls to the Devil, you will inevitably lose and lose big. It’s a lesson we have seen over and over, yet they keep thinking it will be different this time.
Tom Suozzi won disgraced House member George Santos’ seat yesterday by eight points over his Republican rival. It appears that his win was a reaction to the House right killing the border bill they have been begging for, a bill Trump ordered them to block.
Suozzi’s Long Island district is dealing with the border crisis on a daily basis as Texas floods New York with refugees. The people there, blue collar and split between Dems and the GOP, deal with the reality of the mess down south on a daily basis. It is a very real issue to them.
So is Ukraine and Israel. It is a largely Jewish district, many from Eastern Europe who fled oppression from the Russians and Germans. And they voted against the Trump message of isolationism and intentional failure at the border, failure designed only to give Trump an edge in November.
Speaker Johnson, who at Trump’s bidding killed the bipartisan border bill, refuses to bring the…
