I Can’t Believe This Extremist Right-Wing Christian Doesn’t Treat His Female Colleagues with Respect

In between the popcorn we eat while we watch the Republican Party turn on each other should be the realization that when you elect a white supremacist, male supremacist, right-wing Christian extremist as your party leader, he may not in fact treat the people who don’t look like him with respect:

Representative Elise Stefanik of New York called Speaker Mike Johnson a habitual liar.

Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina has told people she is so frustrated with the Louisiana Republican and sick of the way he has run the House — particularly how women are treated there — that she is planning to huddle with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early from Congress.

Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida has gone around Mr. Johnson in a bid to force a vote he has declined to schedule on a bill to ban members of Congress from stock trading.

Less than a year out from midterm elections in which Republicans’ vanishingly small majority is at stake, Mr. Johnson’s grasp on his gavel appears weaker than ever, as members from all corners of his conference openly complain about his leadership. Some predict that he may not last as the speaker for the rest of this term.

Republican women, in particular, have been publicly challenging Mr. Johnson and taking issue with his priorities and his style.

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But Ms. Stefanik is not alone among Republican women in feeling aggrieved by Mr. Johnson. Some of them said privately that the speaker had failed to listen to them or engage in direct conversations on major political and policy issues, suggesting that doing so was a cultural challenge for Mr. Johnson — an evangelical Christian who has often voiced firm views about the distinct roles men and women should play in society.

In a recent podcast interview, for instance, he said that women were not able to compartmentalize their thoughts, and that the member whom he would trust most to cook him Thanksgiving dinner was Representative Lisa McClain of Michigan.

This is like being shocked that Donald Trump is corrupt. And all of these Republican women are also lunatics. But that shouldn’t obscure the fact that Johnson is the closest thing to an ideal that the evangelicals have ever had controlling a major lever of government. Of course he doesn’t think women are equal to him. He’s never hidden it.