Sunday reading, ICYMI: I wrote about the normalization of Mike Johnson, the media’s inclination to accommodate power, and the perpetuation of “real American” extremism.   A thread based on my new piece: “Faith and Family” vs Democracy: 1/ thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/faith-and-...

The first round of reactions to Mike Johnson’s rise to the Speakership is in – and unfortunately, the ascension of yet another ideologically extreme figure has been met with the well-established normalizing impulses that define media coverage and the mainstream political discourse. 2/

The white Evangelicans are happy to empower Trump and his kleptocratic fascism as long as Trump mandates evangelical Biblical literalist theocracy in all public life. Think a Christianized Iran with massive corruption. and incompetence

Well written! Is that Bezo's goal with the WP? To establish a bigoted right wing society where the rich can be "rugged individualists" and do what they want - but the poorer have to live by "family and faith" and everyone else is discriminated against. Poor USA, I would never live there.

Evil Steven Colbert.

Travail, Famille, Patrie. Pure régime de Vichy.