General Discussion

Worst kept "secret" of all time...Trump wanted to hobble / spay & neuter Congress and reduce government to one branch, actually one person...himself.

And I don't have inside info on Johnson. It's one of two things (maybe both):

1). He saw Kevin McCarthy chewed up and spit out and said "Not gonna happen to me, no matter what"
2). He was promised "something" if he had Trump's back, right or wrong, 100% of the time.

And, as we all know, he's hidden behind Jesus every step of the way.

The only area in which Trump can be "given credit" is that he makes his intentions known, consistently. As an impulsive toddler, he must issue 2 AM fatwas on "Truth Social."

The other thing we know about Republicans is 90% of the time, when they are asked about Trump's social media outbursts, their response is "I didn't see that, and I don't comment on things I haven't seen," even though THEY ALL SEE IT.

It's not like Trump was running a soup kitchen and feeding the homeless and then turned into a bastard overnight.

He's been ANNOUNCING ALL OF THIS since the 2024 campaign. He's doing what he PROMISED he'd do. A lot of it got dismissed as "Oh, that's Trump just being Trump, he's WEAVING..."

When he said that "Dictator on Day 1" crap, he meant it. On day one and every day that followed.