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Ken Paxton: “If you can strip the country of its faith, then Marxist…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Ken Paxton on NewsMax at the Faith and Freedom Conference

Published | Video Starts at 02:13

And that's communism and socialism and Marxism. Do away with the family and do away with God. And they're having success right now. Yeah. There's no doubt. If you can strip the country of its faith, then Marxist, totalitarian, socialist type governments thrive. They depend on the governments to sort of be the God of the people. And in reality, that's not how you build freedom. (02:13–02:20)

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Asserts that removing faith from the country enables Marxist and totalitarian governments to thrive.

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