In obeyance to Trump, Mike Johnson spent months doing zip about getting aid to Ukraine, and Ukrainians needlessly died. We all know this.
Then abruptly around two weeks ago, Johnson suddenly got a fire lit under him about helping Ukraine to protect itself. He seems to have told Trump to suck it up, pissed off more than half of congressional Republicans, and now we have aid approved, or about to be. Thank Goddess!
But what happened a couple of weeks ago that got Johnson to disobey his master?
Well… perhaps he took an order from a higher master. From an April 12th article in Ministry Watch:
Baptist Leaders Urge House Speaker Mike Johnson to Support Ukrainian Christians
Southern Baptist leaders have written to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a member and former official of their denomination, urging him to support Ukraine in Russia’s war against its Eastern European neighbor.
“As you consider efforts to support Ukraine, we humbly ask that you consider the plight of Christians,” wrote the leaders, who either have ties to the SBC’s Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary or to Ukrainian Baptists. “The Russian government’s decision to invade Ukraine and to target Baptists and other evangelical Christians in Ukraine has been a tragic hallmark of the war.”
As the article states, Johnson is a Southern Baptist.
Perhaps Johnson is one of the few MAGAs who hold The Lord as a higher authority than Trump? It’s the explanation that I think best explains the sudden rush to decency.
To be clear, I think that Johnson is awful in so many ways. But if it’s the case that Johnson holds God above Trump, that feels a little better to me.