This has always been the fear I hold... Politics has always been full of ugly loud-mouths like Trump, MTG, and Boebert. They're dangerous but manageable because they're generally kinda stupid and can't keep their mouth shut- you can hear them coming from ten miles away and most reasonable people just work around them.

No, the most dangerous ones are always going to be the quiet ones, the ones that can sit and smile without saying a word, completely uncontroversial, while their hands are at work unravelling the knots of civil liberties under the table where you can't see them until it's too late. That's one of the reasons I never did want to see Trump leave office during his 4 years- not because I liked him (far from it), but because I feared seeing Mike Pence, the quiet, uncontroversial Christian, take a seat in the oval office much more than Trump's bumbling egotism.
And Johnson, being a completely uncontroversial nobody that was unknown to the media until now, is the exact kind of "sit-and-smile" quiet that is very, very dangerous.

Some of us did! I’ve been screaming about the dangers of the religion I grew up in and the aims of many-most of its followers for a decade or more.

Anyone ever hear about See You At The Poll? It was a movement that took place in middle and high schools in the early 00’s that was little more than about young Christian’s rising up with the goal of “reclaiming” the United States for Christ. The Poll in the name isn’t about voting, it’s about gathering around the US flag poll at the schools we attended and praying “that God would deliver this nation into his hands” which also served as a show of force to US government officials that there were scores of young people that wanted a Christian government.

That’s just scratching the surface of how politically motivated the religious right has been for the past 30-35ish years

I've said this before: in the country I was born and raised (90% Catholic, I must say), evangelicals were seen as nutjobs and the majority didn't pay attention to what they said. Given that it's a Spanish speaking country, they are called "evangélicos."

It recently dawned on me that American evangelicals are evangélicos. How the fuck would anyone listen to those fucks?!

Evangélicos are not Christian in my view. Evangélicos have always been religious fanatics not to be listened to. They're below the deranged homeless person spouting bullshit in the corner - except that I feel empathy for that homeless person.

An American on Reddit once told me that America isn't any more religious than the UK.

I thought that was ridiculous. Something like 90% of septics believe in God. But in the UK it's considered a faux pas to even mention religion with a majority being atheist at the last census. Tony Blair famously refused to admit his Christianity while in office but in the US it's considered a requirement to state you're Christian.

I was genuinely fucking disturbed hearing my English step mother bang on about Jesus one Easter. That's a common reaction in the UK to anyone talking about religion.

America isn't religious? Pull the other one.

Watch in 5 years we will find out he was a closeted homosexual. The man is wearing lip gloss is all I'm saying.

Congrats to Mike Johnson for edging out every other Christian nationalist in the country.

Oh no! I had him down for "hottest".