A co-host on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast went after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday – a central GOP figure that will be key to seeing through President-elect Donald Trump’s next agenda.
The moment happened Tuesday when right-wing hosts Natalie Winters and Steve Bannon started the latest podcast episode with a discussion revolving around a recent monologue delivered by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.
“I think we need to watch out for something called autocratic breakthrough,” Maddow said in the clip, a concept she described as occurring when the party in power uses their authority “to make sure they can never be dislodged from government.”
Maddow offered her viewers Johnson as a “concrete example.”
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“Now that Mike Johnson is back in as Republican House speaker, they changed the rules in the House to make it much harder to remove him as speaker,” Maddow said.
That characterization of Johnson didn’t sit well with Winters and Bannon.
But not because Maddow suggested Republicans would inevitably see through a government takeover.
“I wish Mike Johnson was the type of Republican that Rachel Maddow and the entire left-wing media apparatus demonized him to be, but unfortunately we’re stuck with a weak-willed do-nothing Mike Johnson,” Winters said.
She continued, “For the next four years the lawfare goes away,” and added that a “global battle” was brewing “between populism and this sort of weird neoliberal elitism, which you can’t really define — it’s a nebulous term — but I’d describe them as, for lack of a better word, anti-fascism.”
Bannon added his own take on Johnson.
“By the way Rachel, if you’re going to bring a concept, a construct, like autocratic breakthrough, you can’t come in with Mike Johnson,” he said. “You can’t have Polly Pockets change the rules...that’s not good enough, ok? You’ve gotta bring the heat.”
Watch the clip below or at this link.
