You can’t win if you don’t show up to play David Rothkopf described new House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana as representing “a movement that is actively seeking to institutionalize the religious beliefs of evangelical Christians into law.” Rothkopf was just getting warmed up (Daily Beast): The term Christofascism may seem inflammatory. It is not. It is intended to provide the most accurate possible definition of what Johnson and those in his movement wish to achieve. Like other fascists they seek to impose by whatever means necessary their views on the whole of society even if that means undoing established laws and eliminating accepted freedoms. Christofascists do so in the name of advancing their Christian ideology, asserting that all in society must be guided by their views and values whether they adhere to them or not. Johnson has ties, Rothkopf claims, to the Christianist New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and Seven Mountains Dominionism. Read more at Daily Beast. David Corn has another chilling account of Johnson’s beliefs at Mother Jones. Men in Afghanistan who don’t think the same things as Mike Johnson think the same way. Fundamentalists are universally rigid, dogmatic, judgmental, uncompromising black-and-white thinkers. Fundamentalism is not about what you believe but how. David Pepper yesterday explained where the Mike Johnsons come from. Gerrymandering is “fueling the insane and extremist behavior of the U.S. House and so many of the American statehouses.” Johnson has risen to Speaker of the House running either unopposed or in uncompetitive, lopsided districts where his extremist views…