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Mike Johnson: “I think, if we all adopt these practices together and we turn down the rhetoric, we cease with this idea that policy…”

On the recordSeptember 14, 2025
I think, if we all adopt these practices together and we turn down the rhetoric, we cease with this idea that policy disputes are somehow an existential threat to democracy or the republic, we stop calling one another names – I mean, calling people Nazis and fascists is not helpful.
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana

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Addressing the need for civil discourse in politics.

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