Posted on Oct 30, 2023
Mike Johnson deeply linked to 'dangerous, anti-democratic' extremists: scholar
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Newly elected House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) may come across as “mild-mannered,” “soft-spoken,” but don't be fooled – he has deep and abiding ties to some of the most anti-democratic extremists in U.S. politics, according to one scholar on American religion.
The back-bench Louisiana Republican managed to take over the gavel from ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) following three weeks of chaos, and his lawyerly efforts to help Donald Trump overturn his election loss in 2020 flow from his ties to a broad nondenominational network of religious extremists working to end American democracy, wrote expert Matthew D. Taylor in a new column for The Bulwark.
"Politically extreme conservative Christians were some of the foremost leaders who bought into and bolstered Trump’s 2020 election lies, who used theology to justify their own authoritarianism, and who have brought their extremist theologies into the heart of right-wing politics," wrote Taylor, a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies. "Mike Johnson can be located in this group."
The back-bench Louisiana Republican managed to take over the gavel from ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) following three weeks of chaos, and his lawyerly efforts to help Donald Trump overturn his election loss in 2020 flow from his ties to a broad nondenominational network of religious extremists working to end American democracy, wrote expert Matthew D. Taylor in a new column for The Bulwark.
"Politically extreme conservative Christians were some of the foremost leaders who bought into and bolstered Trump’s 2020 election lies, who used theology to justify their own authoritarianism, and who have brought their extremist theologies into the heart of right-wing politics," wrote Taylor, a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies. "Mike Johnson can be located in this group."
Mike Johnson deeply linked to 'dangerous, anti-democratic' extremists: scholar
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Not anti democratic...anti Democrat! SO now that he is in the seat the Dem 101 project of denigrating and finding skeletons and personally attacking has started.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Johnson, a Southern Baptist himself, has spent years working with the leaders of New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and praises Jim Garlow and Mario Bramnic, two of the movement's most influential apostles in promoting the profoundly anti-democratic "Seven Mountain Mandate" aimed at transforming the nation into a Christian theocracy.
"After the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, Garlow and Bramnick organized a series of 'Global Prayer for Election Integrity' calls where they gathered like-minded Christians (predominantly others who were on board with the 'Seven Mountain' paradigm) to pray and organize for Trump’s reinstatement as president," Taylor wrote. "Political schemer Steve Bannon, future far-right Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht, and former general (and current conspiracy theorist) Michael Flynn all joined at least one of these calls, making them a central interface between the grassroots Christian nationalist forces angrily mobilizing on Trump’s behalf, on the one hand, and the planners and orchestrators of January 6th who intended to channel their rage towards specific objectives, on the other."...
..."Johnson, a Southern Baptist himself, has spent years working with the leaders of New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and praises Jim Garlow and Mario Bramnic, two of the movement's most influential apostles in promoting the profoundly anti-democratic "Seven Mountain Mandate" aimed at transforming the nation into a Christian theocracy.
"After the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, Garlow and Bramnick organized a series of 'Global Prayer for Election Integrity' calls where they gathered like-minded Christians (predominantly others who were on board with the 'Seven Mountain' paradigm) to pray and organize for Trump’s reinstatement as president," Taylor wrote. "Political schemer Steve Bannon, future far-right Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht, and former general (and current conspiracy theorist) Michael Flynn all joined at least one of these calls, making them a central interface between the grassroots Christian nationalist forces angrily mobilizing on Trump’s behalf, on the one hand, and the planners and orchestrators of January 6th who intended to channel their rage towards specific objectives, on the other."...
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