Johnson: Second Trump Term Would Be “On Turbo”

The New Yorker reports:

If Trump reoccupies the White House and Republicans control Congress, what would be Speaker Johnson’s priorities? In our conversations, he rattled off his best-case scenario: cracking down on illegal immigration, raising tariffs on China, cutting taxes, expanding oil-and-gas drilling, dramatically rolling back all kinds of regulations.

Stripping regulatory power from government agencies would be “a major theme,” he told me. Liberals might say that deregulation would give free rein to polluters, banks, and other corporate interests. Johnson told me that he’d be upholding a lofty principle: “restoring the constitutional authority of Congress as a co-equal third branch.”

“Trump learned a lot of painful lessons in his first term,” Johnson told me, including that liberal bureaucrats in government agencies “might be working against him.” A second Trump term would be like the first, but “on turbo,” Johnson promised, adding, “I think we are going to be right off to the races!”

Read the full article. Unmentioned by Johnson is the Heritage Foundation’s behind the scenes “Project 2025” plan to erase Democratic norms and install Christian nationalist cultists at every level of the federal government.

.@ddk_nyc profiles Mike Johnson, who seemingly emerged from nowhere to become the House’s 56th Speaker last October—and has been pushing Donald Trump’s hard-right agenda with a deceptively soft touch ever since. https://t.co/c3X1LPBZsv

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) March 15, 2024