Though he has adopted a “nerd constitutional-law guy” persona, he is in lockstep with the law-flouting former President, David D. Kirkpatrick writes.
Johnson was personally and ideologically close to the rebels. His district, in northwest Louisiana, votes lopsidedly Republican, and his voting record was as far to the right as that of anyone in the G.O.P. Where Garcia talked about his immigrant story and combat experience, Johnson was a conservative Christian litigator who sometimes warned that hordes of “military-age” migrants were “coming to a neighborhood near you.
“The Scripture says, ‘Honor your father and mother’—there is no qualifier,” Johnson told me. Even as his dad moved from city to city, Mike visited him often. In 2016, Patrick fell ill with cancer, and Mike welcomed him home to Shreveport. The night Johnson was elected to Congress, Patrick was photographed in a crowd behind his son. He died three days later. “I have a remarkable ability to forgive people, even when they’re trying to persecute me,” Mike Johnson told me.
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