Mike Johnson keeps saying the barbarians are inside — not at — the gate. He isn’t misquoting the classics. He’s quoting somebody else, and who he’s quoting, and why, matters right now.
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Mike Johnson has a new favorite phrase when he’s foaming at the mouth about the midterm elections: “The barbarians are in the gate,” he announced a few weeks ago in reference to his fact that all Democrats are now the party of godless communists. His office immediately turned it into the headline: “The barbarians are inside the gate—and Democrats are WE…
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