Crash Course: "A kind of Stepford wife": It's more than a prayer keeping Mike Johnson's wife suddenly out of view

The new speaker's Christian right radicalism really comes into view when looking at his marriage. [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnJLTCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdGk4NWZrcjRlNy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWEzc2thbzgxc2hXA3NwY0IKZUHDL0Jlwbz711IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnJLTCP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvbm05dWY2MDgyeC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWEzc2thbzgxc2gmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZUHDL0Jlwbz711IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). "A kind of Stepford wife": It's more than a prayer keeping Mike Johnson's wife suddenly out of view Amanda Marcotte: Johnson's entire strategy from the second the GOP conference voted for him as their leader has been to do whatever he can to conceal his past and his views from the public eye, because he knows the more voters learn about him, the more they will reject him. Keeping his wife out of the spotlight is likely part of that strategy. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnJLTCP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvOHF2d2tyZmVnZS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWEzc2thbzgxc2gmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZUHDL0Jlwbz711IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Republicans manufactured a "crisis" — now they are ready to exploit it Chauncey DeVega: In many ways, the mainstream media's coverage of the Republican Party's struggle to choose a new speaker of the House is a distillation of its larger failures in the Age of Trump and this time of ascendant neofascism and democracy crisis. Too many journalists and members of the commentariat looked at the "disarray" among the Republicans in the House, and then declared a premature victory over the MAGA movement, and that Trump's influence was most certainly waning. Of course, that was and is not true. 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