Johnson turns Democrats socialist civil war into new weapon for midterms

FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans have adopted a new weapon on the campaign trail as they fight to keep control of Congress for the latter half of President Donald Trump's term — using Democrats' own intraparty civil war against them.House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is unveiling a website on Monday that will highlight the contrast between what he calls "common sense and crazy."The name for the new initiative is "Contrast for America," a play on the Newt Gingrich-led "Contract with America" GOP policy platform used during the 1994 midterm election.That same year saw a massive red wave help the GOP retake the House and Senate for the latter two years of former President Bill Clinton's first term, and Republicans are hoping to harness that energy now as they fight an uphill battle to retain the House and Senate.MIKE JOHNSON PREDICTS GOP COULD GAIN UP TO EIGHT SEATS IN MIDTERMS, DEFYING HISTORICAL TRENDSSpeaker Mike Johnson is seizing on the momentum of far-left candidates like Dr.Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan to push Republicans to victory in November.

(Tierney L.Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Finn Gomez/Getty Images)The website is divided into five separate parts, beginning with a video message from Johnson that includes a montage of Fox News clips and compares images of unrest in U.S.

cities to videos of patriotic displays of the country's 250th anniversary."Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.It must be fought for.

It must be protected.It has to be taught, passed along to the next generation.

Thirty-five years ago, Republicans and Democrats in Congress, they were fighting communism on a distant shore.Now it's here," Johnson says in the video.The website also includes a timeline of failed communist governments throughout the world, followed by dueling lists that show what Republicans are running on versus what Democrats' far-left insurgency is pushing.SOCIALIST VICTORIES SHOW DEMS' DESCENT DOWN 'DEADLY PATH OF COMMUNISM,' JOHNSON WAR...