This has always been the fear I hold… Politics has always been full of ugly loud-mouths like Trump, MTG, and Boebert. They’re dangerous but manageable because they’re generally kinda stupid and can’t keep their mouth shut- you can hear them coming from ten miles away and most reasonable people just work around them.

No, the most dangerous ones are always going to be the quiet ones, the ones that can sit and smile without saying a word, completely uncontroversial, while their hands are at work unravelling the knots of civil liberties under the table where you can’t see them until it’s too late. That’s one of the reasons I never did want to see Trump leave office during his 4 years- not because I liked him (far from it), but because I feared seeing Mike Pence, the quiet, uncontroversial Christian, take a seat in the oval office much more than Trump’s bumbling egotism.
And Johnson, being a completely uncontroversial nobody that was unknown to the media until now, is the exact kind of “sit-and-smile” quiet that is very, very dangerous.