Mike Johnson reminds me of Tom Nichols' homage to The Screwtape Letters in The Bulwark back in 2019. In part 7, Screwtape advised Wormwood as follows regarding the latter's "patient":

"You take what the man values and defends, and then force him to lie about it in order to protect his sense of himself. In a very short time, you will find that he ends up caring only that he can stay near the continual narcotic of power. Without even realizing it, he will be driven by ego and by a growing fear of being found out for the hypocrite he is. Soon, it will become second nature to him to mobilize his religious beliefs as self-serving protection while the actual voice of the Enemy, if he hears it at all, will be only a dim and muffled annoyance."