Dems prepare demonization of new speaker

 Politico:

Democrats rev up the opposition machine against Mike Johnson

The party sees him as a particularly ripe target for their messaging to retake the House.

Mike Johnson might have been an obscure, four-term congressmember before Wednesday, but if Democrats have their way, he will soon be well-known by every American — as an election denier, an anti-abortion extremist and a slasher of Social Security and Medicare.

Johnson hadn’t officially been elected speaker before the Democratic opposition research machinery went full tilt. Democrats have spent the last few days sifting through old shows from Johnson’s time as a podcast host and previously authored editorials in his local newspaper.

They are determined to define Johnson in the public eye before he has a chance to define himself.

Democrats — and aligned research groups — said on Wednesday that they were hurriedly digging into Johnson’s record. There were, as of October 8, 69 episodes of his podcast on Spotify, which Johnson co-hosts with his wife, many of which touch on hot-button political topics. One Democratic operative was quick to spotlight one such episode as indicative of the gold mine they believe is about to be discovered: a June 5 show in which the Johnsons spotlighted an initiative to turn Pride Month into “Fidelity Month.”
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It is what Democrats do.  These are the same people who pushed the bogus Russian collusion hoax on Trump and continue to demonize him even though he was a much more successful president than their guy Biden.