Refuse Fascism The Nightmare That Is House Speaker Mike Johnson
Sam talks with writer Sarah Posner about Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the House, third in line to the presidency and Christian Nationalist who spent around a decade as a lawyer with Alliance Defending Freedom (sic), the organization behind the recent wave of state level anti-abortion legislation, the 303 Creative SCOTUS case, and on the wrong side of many other battles.
Read Sarah's book UNHOLY: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, And the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind, get her latest commentary on MSNBC, and follow her on sarahposner.com.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mike Johnson’s Christian nationalist track record isn’t a mystery — it’s a tragedy by Sarah Posner on MSNBC
Mike Johnson, theocrat: the House speaker and a plot against America by Marci A. Hamilton in The Guardian
White Christian Nationalism, Now with a Gavel in a Tailored Suit by Robert P. Jones
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Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown
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