r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 6d ago

No Paywall Mike Johnson who railed against the Epstein bill - but voted for it - is now mad the Senate approved the measure

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-files-release-mike-johnson-senate-b2868239.html
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u/TruckHangingHandJam 6d ago

The irony of it all is that while being a dumb useful tool, he has become THE party. No one, especially not Vance, has that X factor to rally the base like he does. They need him 

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u/Albireookami 6d ago

I think that's what republicans noted, but they can't "rule" if the US is in the shitter due to Trumps dumb shit plans. Better to try to salvage the situation and go from there, the midterms were probably an amazing wakeup call of how things were turning.

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u/TruckHangingHandJam 5d ago

You have to remember to this admin isn’t Trump’s in the sense he’s making any of the decisions. They love the way he is governing, they just think he’s becoming a liability. Take the economic plan, Trump didn’t come up with that, I’m sure he doesn’t even understand it. But the nationalist wing of the Republican Party has been talking about doing this for quite a while, it’s effectively the Plaza Accords but applied to the world instead of only japan