With Jason Dick out this week, we thought it would be a good idea to give Political Theater listeners a chance to catch an episode of CQ Future on the future of the Republican Party. The former president is ensconced at Mar-a-Lago, and everyone — on both sides of the aisle — is curious to know what his influence will be on the GOP. We turn to Rep. Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican who has risen fast in the party ranks since his 2016 election. A former lawyer, he defends religious liberty and opposes same-sex marriage and currently serves as vice chair of the House Republican Conference. Johnson joins CQ Roll Call’s Shawn Zeller to discuss the future of the Republican Party. Show Notes: Governing in a hurry: The fleeting nature of unified control11 years later, the Affordable Care Act is still ‘a big f—ing deal’What Deb Haaland at Interior means for Native AmericansMaking sense of Congress, one year into the pandemicIf you want partisanship, you’ve got it
