Paul Waldman is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in dozens of publications. He writes The Cross Section, a newsletter about politics and culture, and co-hosts the Boundary Issues podcast. His latest book is 'White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy.
We can now count “keeping a poker face” among the skills Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is notably lacking, alongside “vote counting” and “swaying his own caucus.” It’s never easy for speakers from the opposition party to sit behind the president at a State of the Union address. They have to sit there knowing that the eyes of millions are upon them as a president says things that they disagree with — often strongly.
And after recent primaries in which yet more hard-right kooks won the party’s nomination in safe Republican districts, it looks like Johnson’s caucus will be even more reactionary next year. When Republicans killed a bipartisan compromise to reform immigration policy, it should have been the final straw. That immigration bill would have given Republicans most of what they wanted when it came to beefed-up border security.
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