The Man Who Is Even More Repulisve than Trump, Continued

The new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, thinks that underfunding the IRS — hampering its efforts to audit and collect taxes from rich tax cheats — is so vitally important that he coupled it with an aid-to-Israel bill. Chris Hayes described this stunt as a caricature of MAGA behavior. And so it is: so crude, so wrongheaded, and so ill-portending as to defy analysis. It’s what might be expected from the spotlessly groomed, courteous, soft-spoken man who is even more repulsive than Trump.