Republican to Republican: In Support of House Speaker Mike Johnson

Republican frustration is understandable but misguided. Here’s why.

Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson gives remarks at a Congressional Medal of Honor Ceremony in honor of the thirteen service members who lost their lives on August 26, 2021, while stationed at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Family members accepted the medal while their servicemember’s name was spoken aloud in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol on September 10, 2024. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Brittany Primavera. (Photo: The United States Army Band)

While Congressional Republicans in the House engage in a perfectly healthy and reasonable public debate on the policy merits of H-1B immigration visas and confront the monstrous truth about incomprehensible, twelve-hundred-page omnibus spending bills, there are plenty of people rooting for conservatives to fail.

Many Democrats are, understandably, bitter after the losses of 2024.

While there are rare progressive bright spots, like Sen. John Fetterman flatly refusing to hope for President Donald Trump’s failures, he is — as usual — an outspoken outlier in his party. Wishing a president ill is, as the wise Senator Fetterman rightly noted, wishing a nation ill.

While many, both inside and outside the Beltway, hope for a humiliating failure or paralysis of the Republican Party, millions of others are praying this holiday season for success in the year ahead. A successful 2025 for the Republican Party would benefit not just soon-to-be President Donald Trump, Congressional Republicans, or fellow conservatives, but all Americans.

Today and in the future.

As such, the Republican Party has a profound duty to govern — immediately and effectively…