Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key āarchitectā in Congressās efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.
Johnson finally secured the speakerās gavel after Republican infighting left the House without a speaker for 22 days. He secured 220 votes.
Johnson is a four-term congressman representing Louisiana. His win also represents the rise of the MAGA front in the Republican Party. Earlier Wednesday morning, Donald Trump endorsed Johnson as House speakerāafter quickly killing Mike Emmerās nomination the day before.
Every single state is gerrymandered to all hell. No we didnāt.
California isnāt. We have an independent third party organization that draws the districts.
Heck Massachusetts is actually gerrymandered to hell and gone, but thatās just because of the Dems sense of fair play. They made sure that the Republicans have a single district that they have a shot at winning. Gerrymandering isnāt always a bad thing. Itās just always a bad thing when Republicans are doing it.
Gerrymandering is a bad thing in a fair democratic system with political parties that believe in democracies. When one of the parties doesnāt believe in democratic principles, it is good to remove them from power, and gerrymandering towards the Democrats has that effect.
They didnāt gerrymander towards the Democrats anywhere. Massachusetts was gerrymandered by Democrats for Republicans. Without the gerrymandering, the Republicans wouldnāt win an election anywhere in Massachusetts.