John Boehner’s long time antics such as masterminding the GOP-E’s coup of the 1994 Conservative GOP wins has done lots of damage over a 20 year period. Boehner isn’t a Johnny Come Lately. It was his backstabbing planning that unseated Newt as SOH and put the GOP-E in power to start with. Yes it goes back that far.
Which is why the Dem was not the “lesser evil” as far as he and Mithc (along with a few others) was concerned.
A corrupt leader vs a powerless freshman dem isn’t rocket science.