"The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism:
Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes"
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The American founders expected better leaders than Johnson. They thought Congress would check the president. They didn't think one branch would surrender completely to another.

"Have you ever voted against anything that Trump set forth, as far as policy?" a caller asked Johnson on C-SPAN.

The speaker didn't name a single thing. "I typically vote with President Trump, I do, because that's my party," he said.

And nothing Trump has done"the sham prosecutions, the threats of imprisonment, the invasions of American cities"has shaken that blind devotion.