Mike Johnson: “By our count, there's almost 40 openly avowed Marxists…”

“And frankly, too often too many Americans have taken for granted. We cannot take this for granted anymore. As I said, the barbarians are now inside the gate. By our count, there's almost 40 openly avowed Marxists, Communists, socialists [in Congress]. they're all in the same camp. Marxism, you understand? In Marxism, socialism is a step to get to communism, okay? Communism, Marx thought would be the utopia, the perfect society.” (21:12–21:18)

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