MSNBC columnist Charlie Sykes is founder and editor-at-large of the Bulwark and host of 'The Bulwark Podcast.' His most recent book, 'How the Right Lost Its Mind,' was published in October 2017.
In the end, there were no normies left. Last week, every Republican in the House voted for a man The New York Times described as “the most important architect” of the attempt to overthrow Donald Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat. And yet, for a few naive days, it appeared that the center might actually hold. After all, nearly two dozen GOP “moderates” had braved the bullying and threats from MAGAworld and blocked Rep. Jim Jordan from the speakership a few days earlier.
Johnson was a central player in pushing a lawsuit that would have thrown out tens of millions of votes in states that Trump lost. Even worse: Johnson touted some the wooliest of the Kraken-level conspiracy theories including the bizarre lie that voting software came from “Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela.” Those were the kind of lies that cost Fox News $787 million, and resulted in guilty pleas from Trump co-defendants Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro.
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