As the author of "Laboratories of Autocracy" and former Ohio Democratic Party Chair David Pepper details, Johnson has three times won his heavily gerrymandered House seat by 30 points or more because the seat has been drawn to ensure that no Democrat has a prayer of winning it. This structural dynamic means that congressmen like Johnson can essentially ignore anyone who isn't on the far right and stay in power...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Opinion: Why Speaker Johnson says America is not a democracy | CNN
But Johnson is part of a generation of conservative politicos who've never had a competitive election. Johnson went from being a right-wing activist lawyer lobbying for a creationist theme park to being a state legislator who ran twice with no Democratic opposition.
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