The Great Ongoing Revolving Speakership of the 118th Congress {Mike Johnson is new speaker as of 2023-10-25}

[Aspenglow]

I’ve started a new thread to discuss what Johnson’s win as Speaker will mean so as to not hijack this one, here:

What is the Import of Mike Johnson's Win as Speaker of the House?

Not wishing to hijack this thread: But I have some thoughts. I hope I’m wrong, but I fear from this outcome that the takeaway is that Republicans will devote all their efforts to steal the next election in 2024 in the same way they attempted to steal it in 2020. Johnson was a key architect in the 2020 effort (gift link): I believe Republicans will spend the next year putting as many fixes in place as they can to do “legally” this time what Trump was unable to accomplish in 2020. Between…