Johnson is the most culturally conservative lawmaker to ascend to the speakership in decades, if not longer.
He has a faith-driven outlook toward governance and longstanding ties to the evangelical activist group Family Research Council, which could one day prove discomfiting to members from swing districts or of a more secular orientation.
The FRC and Perkins are political lightning rods among non-evangelicals — some of Perkins’ stances, like his argument that natural disasters are divine punishments for homosexuality, don’t sit well with broad swaths of the electorate. But Johnson’s political and religious beliefs dovetail with Perkins’ views.
Johnson used the skills he sharpened on talk radio and in televised FRC interviews to start a weekly podcast in 2022 with his wife, called “Truth be Told with Mike and Kelly Johnson.”
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