Mike Johnson finally got Ukraine aid done-but he’s no hero.


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Before House Speaker Mike Johnson basks too deeply in the praise he’s received for bringing the security assistance bill to the floor, where it passed by a predictably wide margin, we should recall that the bill would have passed six months ago had it not been for Johnson’s cowardly submission to the pressure of former (and possibly future) President Donald Trump. Had Johnson acted like a leader back in October, when President Joe Biden proposed the bill, fewer Ukrainians would have died, less Ukrainian land would have been ceded to Russian soldiers, Russia would not have gained the momentum it’s...