Meet Mike Johnson, Republicansā€™ new House speaker.

Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key ā€œarchitectā€ in Congressā€™s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.

Johnson finally secured the speakerā€™s 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 speakerā€”after quickly killing Mike Emmerā€™s nomination the day before.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        123Ā·
        10 months ago

        California isnā€™t. We have an independent third party organization that draws the districts.

        Heck Massachusetts is actually gerrymandered to hell and gone, but thatā€™s 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 isnā€™t always a bad thing. Itā€™s just always a bad thing when Republicans are doing it.

        • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.comEnglish
          3Ā·
          10 months ago

          Gerrymandering is a bad thing in a fair democratic system with political parties that believe in democracies. When one of the parties doesnā€™t believe in democratic principles, it is good to remove them from power, and gerrymandering towards the Democrats has that effect.

          • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
            1Ā·
            10 months ago

            They didnā€™t gerrymander towards the Democrats anywhere. Massachusetts was gerrymandered by Democrats for Republicans. Without the gerrymandering, the Republicans wouldnā€™t win an election anywhere in Massachusetts.