New Speaker Is Huge Fan Of Christian Nationalist Liar David Barton And They’re Already Plotting Together

NBC News reports:

Two years before going from a relatively unknown congressman to speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana spoke at a national gathering of Christian lawmakers in North Texas and shared his deep admiration for the man behind the conference: the evangelical activist and self-styled historian David Barton.

Johnson told the audience at the December 2021 gathering that Barton’s teachings — which are disputed by many historians — have had “a profound influence on me, and my work, and my life and everything I do.”

Speaking only hours after Johnson’s election, Barton said on a podcast that he’d already been in touch with Johnson’s team, “talking with them about staff” and offering advice on who the speaker should hire. “They need to be the people with his worldview,” said Barton.

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As Right Wing Watch has exhaustively documented for years, Barton tours the country, telling avid Christian audiences that virtually every line of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were taken verbatim from the bible. Barton is such a notorious liar that even his own Christian publishing house retracted his book. Give the tweets below a minute to fully load and take a look at Barton’s incessant batshittery.