Uncivil war: How Speaker Mike Johnson’s dream of bipartisan decency died in his hands
Raw StorySnowed in at a Colonial Williamsburg hotel. He and then-Rep. Charlie Crist joined together to create the Honor and Civility Caucus — a bipartisan body dedicated to improving “the tone of the nation’s politics and public discourse.” They also proposed legislation for a National Day of Civility on July 12, inspired by the Biblical verse Matthew 7:12, according to a December 2017 press release. After Johnson and Crist announced the Honor and Civility Caucus in December 2017, the caucus reportedly held its first meeting shortly after in January 2018, aiming to build rapport through informal meetings, with the hope for future “bipartisan policy discussions,” according to Gray Television’s Washington News Bureau. “Based on our records, an Honor and Civility Caucus has not been registered for the 118th Congress,” Mary Beth Burns, press secretary for the Committee on House Administration, confirmed to Raw Story via email. “This is the Democrats' electoral strategy headed into 2024, and it’s also the biggest scandal of our lifetime.” Screen grab of December 19 email from the National Republican Congressional Committee, written by Johnson.
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