Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan
“Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, worries that the United States could become a dictatorship. At a press conference on Wednesday, he warned that ‘a Marxist ideology [is] taking over the Democrat party’ and could soon be ‘turning us into a Communist country.’ On Thursday, as he fielded calls on C-SPAN, Johnson invoked the language of The Communist Manifesto: ‘What if the socialists take over the Senate, and Democrat socialists are in charge, and they want to grow government and take over the means of production?’ Johnson isn’t wrong to fear dictatorship in this country. He’s just wrong about where that threat is coming from. It’s coming from his own party. And he’s paving the way.” (10/13/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mike-johnson-abetting-trump-authoritarianism