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Gutam says many prefer to boost their chances for career advancement by publishing in prestigious journals from European and U.S. publishers, which some reformers have criticized as unreliable and overly restrictive gatekeepers of quality papers.

Some of Gaetz's former House colleagues have voiced support for his nomination, including Speaker Mike Johnson, who called him a "reformer" who would "bring a lot to the table".

Gaetz, he claimed, was an “accomplished attorney,” despite his thin legal resume, and “a reformer in his mind and heart.”

"He's a reformer in his mind and heart, and I think that he'll bring a lot to the table on that," said Johnson.

All of this is not to say that Black reformers rejected the idea of staging a political revolution when necessary to abolish entrenched systemic evils.