In his remarks, not only does Johnson claim Roe “gave constitutional cover to the elective killing of unborn children,” but he rails against the imagined economic detriments of abortion, pushing his caucus’ outlandish claim that by depleting a hypothetical workforce, abortion has defunded social security: “Think about the implications of that on the economy. We’re all struggling here to cover the bases of social security and Medicare and Medicaid and all the rest,” Johnson says. “If we had all those able-bodied workers in the economy we wouldn’t be going upside down and toppling over like this… Roe was a terrible corruption.” Mind you, social security and health care have been gutted in the last several years by Republican lawmakers, not people who choose to end a pregnancy.
i kinda get the feeling that this nutjob is payback for booting mccarthy and nixing jordan.
And I kinda wonder just how many backup christofascists the GOP has.
There’s a literal pipeline. I’m not joking. For decades now the right has been recruiting them straight from college, charting their careers, and this latest bunch has been in the chute since the 80s. Ever heard of Leonard Leo? If you have the time, that link is well worth the read, because it tells you exactly how the machine works, not just for the Supreme Court but for the extreme-right as a whole.