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Ron Johnson: “Government is something, by and large, to fear.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 1:15:13

These again, our founders are geniuses. They realize that we're not angels. If you don't want to live in chaos and anarchy, you need some form of government. But Government is something, by and large, to fear. I agree. And it took me, a dyed in the wool liberal a long time to understand. I sort of thought that the founders had PTSD because of what they had experienced. (1:15:13–1:15:16)

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Asserts that government should generally be feared.

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