Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana had just survived a closed-door vote to end a tumultuous period of paralysis without a House speaker on Tuesday night and was celebrating with smiling and exhausted Republican colleagues. “Democracy is messy sometimes,” he said, “but it is our system.” But moments later, Johnson was confronted at a news conference about his own past role in American democracy, when he worked in alliance with former President Donald Trump to block the certification of the 2020 elect

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