Yeah, no. I mean, where's your actual evidence for this "blackmail," hmm?
To my mind, this whole "blackmail" angle is just pathetic cope trotted out by conservatives who don't want to acknowledge -- especially to themselves -- that they've been played for fools for years (decades?) now by a Republican Party that is led by elites who utterly despise the party's conservative base.
Mike Johnson is what he is. No "blackmail" was required. And, hey, if this is what his constituents in LA CD-4 want in their "representative," well, that's how our "constitutional system" works, right? And if that's who the Republican caucus in the House wants as its Leader, well, what does that tell us?
thank you thank you, thank you. I’m so tired of the” blackmail” trope myself, Repubs are not Conservatives, they’re country club blue bloods and like you said, despise the base. the only, and I mean only time they get tough, is with conservatives in the party, because theres not enough of us in the party to fight back, they roll us every single time. They run away from Dems like scared little girls every time, too scared of confrontation, and will compromise with them always, never with the conservative members of their own party. I was a republican voter my whole life, changed my affiliation in Jan’20, can’t stand the fookers.