Mike Johnson: “Communism has failed everywhere it's been tried.”

“… Soviet Russia, going through history of the 20th century to communist China, you know, ending in Venezuela with the Eastern bloc over in Europe. It never works. And it ends … Communism has failed everywhere it's been tried. … young people, that's a siren song to them. That sounds great to them. No one is telling them they have to give up their freedom in exchange.” (03:14–03:17)

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