Jarvis DeBerry is an opinion editor for MSNBC Daily.
After Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s ignominious removal from the House speakership last week, Rep. Steve Scalise has been pushed forward as the House GOP’s nominee for speaker — and the smiling face of Republican denialism. If there’s an obvious truth that can’t be reconciled with a Republican talking point or goal, then there may be no better person to smile and pretend the truth isn’t the truth than the Louisiana Republican.
The same politician who shrugs at the erosion of democracy similarly shrugs as Louisiana’s coast, which is home to all his constituents, dissolves into the Gulf of Mexico. Scalise knows as well as anybody that the oil and gas industry is largely responsible both for destroying Louisiana’s wetlands and for an ever-warming climate.
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