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Greg Landsman: “I remember when the Republican Party was about small government, local control, and personal liberties. Those were the…”

On the recordDecember 18, 2025
I remember when the Republican Party was about small government, local control, and personal liberties. Those were the foundations of the party that I grew up with. I wasn't a Republican, but I admired those things about the party. It seems as if they all have strayed from those core tenets of personal liberty, States' rights, local control, leaving people alone. We are talking about children here, kids who get bullied, who have the highest suicide rates of any other group of kids. Now, politicians are bullying them and saying that they are going to pick on them, too. It is wrong.
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Greg Landsman
Democratic · Ohio

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Addressing the shift in Republican values and the impact on bullied children.

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