Will Mike Johnson Actually Turn on Trump?

I've been waiting, but my belief level has been low.

Mike Johnson presumably thinks that pedophilia is bad, or at least feels he needs to say that when he's back home in Louisiana, where bible-thumping hypocrisy permeates the soil, the air, and the water. So will he turn on Trump if it turns out that there is a video of Trump and Epstein taking turns with a fourteen-year-old girl?

I don't know. Is there anything that Mike Johnson won't swallow from Donald Trump? Would he swallow cannibalism?

The picture above suggests to me that the Speaker of the House may be experiencing some role stress. His precipitate flight to his safe place, hailed by some as a masterful strategic move, may have been motivated primarily by panic. So is he frozen in place now, like a deer in the headlights, or will he run? And if he does run will he leap onto the windshield of a car, causing significant damage to the windshield and also to his internal organs? I just don't know. 

There are three gangs out there - Johnson's evangelicals, JD Vance's tech bros, and the poor Maga masses. The Maga masses are incendiary in their unhappiness with the way things are going. But how will they topple Trump? On the other hand, the tech bros have their man, JD Vance, as first in line for succession to the presidency. The tool of the theocratic fascists, Mike Johnson, is only second in line.

I had thought that the tech bros would move on Trump first, and I thought they would be the ones to topple Trump. But now I'm not so sure. The techies currently seem to be in the business executive's favorite stance of watchful waiting. This is also called sitting on your hands.

(Sorry, Vance's failed meeting at the Naval Observatory doesn't count as an actual move. Although a little bit of squirming is a definite sign of life.) 

I think Elon Musk's flameout may have unsettled the tech bros. They learned that presidents can be dangerous.

Maybe Johnson and his evangelicals will get there first. I don't think there will be a telegram from God telling them to dump Trump. I think the outcome depends on how much humiliation Mike Johnson is willing - and able - to stomach.

Jimmy Swaggart died recently. If you want to know about religion in Louisiana, you should read about him. To see his biography in Wikipedia, click here.

Jimmy Swaggart: "I have sinned."

See also Just Another Picture.