It Appears Speaker Mike Johnson Has Never Heard of the Separation of Powers

Our long national nightmare is returning.

This week has shown yet again that the Republican Party, after 40 years in the making with increasing levels of subservience to a series of “Dear Leader” Presidents (Reagan, Bush II, and Trump,) has morphed into an authoritarian-plutocratic-white nationalists-alternative reality based-neo fascist political entity.

In 2025, fealty to Donald Trump is the order of the day to MAGA world among Executive Branch Nominees and those supporters walking the halls of Congress.

Examples of this are the confirmation hearings of Trump’s Attorney General and Treasury nominations.

Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General nominee, repeatedly refused to acknowledge that Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in the 2020 elections and feigned ignorance that F.B.I. Director nominee Kash Patel had an enemies list.

Scott Bessent, Mr. Trump’s Treasury Nominee, is prioritizing renewing and expanding the 2017 Trump-Republican Plutocratic and Large Corporate Tax Cuts, refuting evidence it had no long term positive effects on the economy and helped (along with Reagan and Bush II Republican trickle down tax cuts,) explode the national debt.

He also expressed the need for spending cuts (that would hurt the middle and working class) and opposition to raising the federal minimum wage.

This social media post from JoJo from Jerz says it all.

Finally, there is House Speaker Mike Johnson who earlier in the week, on orders from Trump at Mara Largo, replaced the House Intelligence Chairperson Mike Turner.

Turner’s sin.

Not bending the knee to Donald Trump and, according to reporting from The Hill, saying that Russian Propaganda had made its way into MAGA-Republican talking points.

According to reporting by the New York Times, Turner said that Johnson removed him from his post after Trump told him to.

Mr. Johnson apparently has not heard of separation of powers and checks and balances. But in MAGA world and with his devotion to biblical scripture, Mr. Johnson probably does not think he has to care about such constitutional guard posts.

This is a gift to America’s enemies.

In the Times reporting, ranking Democratic member on the House Intelligence Committee Jim Himes commented that Turner’s removal “sends a shiver down my spine” and “The removal of Chairman Turner makes our nation less secure and is a terrible portent for what’s to come. The Constitution demands that Congress function as a check and balance to the executive branch, not cater to its demands.”

In reporting from the Hill, Himes is reported to have said “The removal of Chairman Turner makes our nation less secure and is a terrible portent for what’s to come,”

Himes last words may be spot on.

These hearings and actions by Speaker Johnson could signal “A terrible portent for what’s to come.”


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