No-name, know-nothing House speaker is a bigger threat than the obviously wacky

From Slate:

(Speaker Mike) Johnson is thus the terrifying embodiment of two anodyne faces that give cover to the worst forms of MAGA extremism: theocratic zealotry and lawyerly precision. It’s not just that he’s Jim Jordan with better hair. It’s that he is Sen. Mike Lee, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Sen. Josh Hawley, and the people who invent fake gay couples in order to bring wholly hypothetical cases to the Supreme Court. He’s a constitutional lawyer, sure, in the same way that Justice Amy Coney Barrett is: He exists to graft a vanilla-scented, lawyerly sounding vision of a theocratic America onto its secular institutions.