Mike Johnson: “In recent decades, our government had become too large, too…”

“Because they're better for individuals and families, communities, individual states and our nation as a whole. In recent decades, our government had become too large, too inefficient and too powerful. And in too many cases, it had also been weaponized and corrupted. That is precisely what the framers of our Constitution feared and what political philosophers and historians over the centuries have warned against.” (02:05–02:11)

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