Mod: The more people learn about the extreme politics of MAGA Mike, the worse he looks.
Poll: Most Americans Oppose Speaker Mike Johnson’s Christian Nationalist Views (Truthout link): A new poll suggests that most American voters are decidedly opposed to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-Louisiana) far right Christian nationalist viewpoints.
Johnson was voted into the speakership on October 25 after more than three weeks of the
House of Representatives having no speaker at all. He was the third person
Republicans nominated for the role, after
Reps. Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) and
Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) were unsuccessful at securing the support required from their
GOP colleagues to take on the role.
Two days after Johnson became speaker, Data for Progress ran a two-day poll in which they asked American voters to describe their feelings on Johnson. A majority (56 percent) said they haven’t heard enough about him to formulate an opinion, while 21 percent said they had a favorable view and 23 percent said they had an unfavorable view.
But while most voters said they didn’t know much about
Johnson, the poll also found that, by large margins, voters disagree with a number of his viewpoints.
Johnson, for example, has said that states should be allowed to imprison doctors or sentence them to “hard labor” if they perform abortions, and that abortion should be banned in all U.S. states — an opinion that 66 percent of Americans disagree with, the Data for Progress poll found.
Johnson also wanted to repeal the provision in the
Affordable Care Act that protects people with pre-existing conditions from discrimination by insurance companies, which the poll found
58 percent of
Americans disagree with. The poll also found that
88 percent of
Americans are opposed to cutting
Social Security and
Medicare, a measure that
Johnson has repeatedly called for.
American voters also reject
Johnson’s anti-
LGBTQ viewpoints, the
Data for Progress poll found.
Johnson, for example, once pushed to allow states to imprison
LGBTQ people for having consentual sex; only
12 percent of voters supported the idea, while
78 percent were opposed, the poll showed.
Johnson also opposes same-sex marriage, once calling the recognition of such unions a “dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic” — but only
30 percent of
Americans believe that same-sex marriage should be banned, according to the
Data for Progress poll.
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