“我们花在彼此内斗上的时间，远多于思考如何与中国共产党竞争的时间”
2026年7月14日 美国东部时间下午6:07 / 福克斯新闻频道
众议员达斯蒂·约翰逊警告美国正在低估中国威胁
这位南达科他州国会议员在谈及自己作为问题解决者的职业生涯、州长初选表现以及卸任后的计划时，发出了针对北京方面威胁的警告。
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在国会任职的四届任期里，南达科他州的达斯蒂·约翰逊已成为美国农业政策、美中关系和财政责任问题的核心声音之一。
这位常被称为“问题解决者”的议员近日在拉斯维加斯自由节上接受了福克斯新闻数字频道的采访，讨论了他的国会生涯、南达科他州州长竞选以及他在众议院任期即将结束之际的未来计划。
（配图）南达科他州联邦众议员达斯蒂·约翰逊（共和党，南达科他州）于2024年6月4日抵达美国国会山参加众议院共和党会议党团会议。（比尔·克拉克/CQ-滚呼公司通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
长期以来，约翰逊因对中国政策的细致分析而广受尊重，他认为美国一直在系统性地低估北京方面构成的地缘政治和经济威胁。
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“我认为最大的错误在于，我们基本上正在这场竞争中梦游。我的意思是，中国的领导人每天醒来，都在想方设法打败美国、颠覆我们的国家、获取优势。
“而坦率地说，我们这个国家花在彼此内斗上的时间，远多于思考如何与中国共产党竞争的时间。”
约翰逊曾是共和党主流核心小组的负责人，该组织由中右翼共和党人组成，致力于务实治理和实用主义政治。他在职业生涯中一直渴望打破众所周知的华盛顿僵局。
然而，约翰逊最近哀叹“做一个正常人太难了”，他指出，声音最响亮、情绪最激动的群体似乎越来越主导了全国性的舆论场。
“嗯……看看上周的纽约初选就知道了，一群极其离谱的民主社会主义者击败了一些相当开明但仍属于主流美国政治思潮的民主党人。我认为这种情况在两党都有出现。
（配图）纽约州联邦众议院民主党候选人达莉亚利扎·阿维拉·谢瓦利埃于2026年6月18日在纽约布鲁克林国王剧院举行的“投票动员”集会上发表讲话，该活动是在6月23日纽约州初选之前举行的。（亚当·格雷/彭博社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
“初选的投票率向来不高。真正出来投票的人通常最看重立场纯粹性，而非进步。因此，当你试图逆流而上，传递一种讲究分寸和深思熟虑的信息时，有时效果不如直接喊一句‘那就开打吧’来得好。”
尽管在过去一代人的时间里，共和党曾多次掌控白宫和国会两院，但始终未能解决预算平衡和削减国家债务的问题。
约翰逊认为，只有两党合作才有希望找到解决方案。
“嗯，每个人都想去天堂，但没人愿意死。”他说，“我确实推出过多项计划，对我们的福利项目进行相当实质性的改革。我不是要拿走祖母的社会保障金或医疗保险。但我们绝对不可能用维持现状的方式，让这些项目恢复偿付能力。
“不幸的是，哈里斯候选人、拜登候选人、特朗普候选人……他们几乎对着圣经 stack 发誓，绝对不会碰社会保障或医疗保险。这种做法注定会失败。
“另一件我们必须承认的事是，单靠一个政党无法完成这项工作。我知道这对共和党人来说很难接受，因为太多共和党公职人员向美国民众兜售过一个谎言，说单靠共和党就能做到这一点。事实并非如此。
“我们上一次对社会保障进行必要改革还是在1983年，当时是民主党议长蒂普·奥尼尔和共和党总统罗纳德·里根共同促成了此事。如果我们不开始将避免财政灾难视为两党共同的问题，我们就会失败。”
约翰逊曾是2026年南达科他州共和党州长初选的领跑者，但最终在一场竞争激烈的选举中排名第三，落后于房地产高管托比·多登和现任州长拉里·罗登。
（配图）南达科他州州长拉里·罗登于2026年4月8日在南达科他州苏福尔斯的麦克罗斯曼男孩牧场，陪同教育部长琳达·麦克马洪的“将教育归还给各州”巡回活动期间与媒体交谈。（萨曼莎·劳里/阿格斯领袖报/今日美国网络通过伊曼图像公司拍摄）
他承认，曾经被视为竞选更高职位优势的国会履历，现在似乎成了某种负担。
南达科他州州长在拥挤的初选中幸存——暂时如此
“嗯，我认为过去三四周针对我的铺天盖地的负面广告确实奏效了。他们告诉人们我是一名职业政客、我是一名共和党叛徒、我是一名自由主义者，而民调显示这些说法确实引起了共鸣。这些广告之所以效果这么好，是因为它们契合了当下的时代精神。
“我在国会有13位同事在州长或参议员竞选中失利了。通常情况下，作为众议院议员参选，如果你竞选其他职位，这会给你带来一点优势。但现在情况不一样了。民众受够了华盛顿特区。这显然对我和其他许多像我一样在竞选中失利的同事造成了拖累。”
尽管初选结果不尽如人意，约翰逊仍乐观地展望未来，而非心怀怨恨，并承诺他的工作尚未完成，他援引了自己在商业和非营利部门先前取得的成功。
（配图）南达科他州联邦众议员达斯蒂·约翰逊（共和党，南达科他州）于2024年2月15日在本周最后几次投票期间站在坎农隧道中。（威廉姆斯/CQ-滚呼公司通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
“嗯，我还不确定。当然，我大部分时间都得专注于我的本职工作，也就是作为南达科他州在美国众议院的唯一代表。我会做到明年1月，但听着，我知道你可以过上有意义的生活。
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“你可以在商业领域建设更美好的社会。我之前做到过。在非营利部门、较低层级的民选职位或政府办公室里也一样。所以，我现在还不确定，但我知道我还没准备好退休。我今年50岁，但感觉自己还很年轻，我仍然充满干劲。让我们放手去干吧。”
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Congressman sounds the alarm on China: ‘We’re sleepwalking through this competition’
‘We’re spending more time fighting one another than we are trying to think about how to compete with the Chinese Communist Party’
July 14, 2026 6:07pm EDT / Fox News
Rep Dusty Johnson warns America is underestimating the Chinese threat
South Dakota’s congressman reflects on his career as a problem-solver, performance in the gubernatorial primary and his post-office plans as he warns of Beijing threat.
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During four terms in Congress, South Dakota’s Dusty Johnson has emerged as a leading voice on American agricultural policy, U.S.-China relations and fiscal responsibility.
Often known as the “problem solver,” he recently sat down with Fox News Digital at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas to discuss his congressional career, his South Dakota gubernatorial bid and his future plans as his time in the U.S. House draws to a close.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., arrives for the House Republican Conference caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol June 4, 2024.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Long respected for his detailed analysis of China policy, Johnson believes the United States is routinely underestimating the geopolitical and economic threat posed by Beijing.
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“I think the biggest mistake is that we’re basically sleepwalking through this competition. I mean, every day the leaders of China get up, and they try to figure out how to beat America, how to destabilize our country, how to get an advantage.
“And we’re, frankly, in this country spending more time fighting one another than we are trying to think about how to compete with the Chinese Communist Party.”
Johnson is the former leader of the Republican Main Street Caucus, a group of center-right Republicans focused on commonsense governance and pragmatism. He has approached his career aspiring to break the famed Washington gridlock.
However, recently Johnson lamented that “it’s a tough time to be normal,” observing that the loudest and angriest voices seem to be increasingly dominating the national conversation.
“Well … looking a little further than the New York primaries last week, where just an insane bunch of really out there democratic socialists beat some pretty liberal but still kind of mainstream American political thought Democrats, I just think you see that happening in both parties.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, U.S. Democratic House candidate for New York, speaks at a Get Out The Vote rally at Kings Theater in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 18, 2026, ahead of the state’s primary election June 23.(Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Primary turnout is rarely great. Those who do turn out are generally the most interested in purity rather than in progress. And, so, when you’re trying to swim upstream, when you are trying to deliver a message of nuance and thoughtfulness, that sometimes doesn’t go over as well as just saying, ‘Let’s go fight.’”
Even as the GOP has controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress on several occasions over the past generation, it has been perennially unable to tackle the problem of balancing budgets and reducing the national debt.
Johnson argues that only a bipartisan approach has hope of offering a solution.
“Well, everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die,” he said. “I’ve certainly rolled out a number of plans that would have some pretty substantial reforms to our entitlement programs. I’m not looking to take away grandma’s Social Security or Medicare. But we simply are not going to restore solvency to those programs with a status quo approach.
“And, unfortunately, candidate Harris, candidate Biden, candidate Trump … they damn near swore on a stack of Bibles that they were not going to touch Social Security or Medicare. That approach guarantees failure.
“The other thing we have to acknowledge is one party’s not going to get this done. And I know that’s hard for Republicans to hear because so many Republican office holders have sold the American people a bill of goods that this can be done with one party alone. It cannot.
“The last time we made much-needed reform to Social Security in 1983, it took Democratic Speaker Tip O’Neill and Republican President Ronald Reagan to get it done. If we do not start thinking about avoiding fiscal calamity as a bipartisan problem, we will fail.”
Johnson entered the 2026 South Dakota GOP gubernatorial primary as the frontrunner but ended up placing third in a tight race behind real estate executive Toby Doeden and incumbent Gov. Larry Rhoden.
South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden speaks with the press during Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s Returning Education to the States tour April 8, 2026, at McCrossan Boys Ranch in Sioux Falls, S.D.(Samantha Laurey/Argus Leader/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
He acknowledges that a congressional pedigree, once seen as a boost in a bid for a higher office, now appears to be something of an albatross.
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“Well, I think an absolute onslaught of negative ads the last three or four weeks against me, they really worked. Told people I was a career politician, that I was a RINO, that I was a liberal, and we saw in the polling that that was resonating. Those ads worked so well because they tapped into kind of the spirit of the times.
“I have 13 of my colleagues in Congress who have lost their races for governor or senator. Normally, running as a House member, that gives you a bit of an advantage if you’re running for a different office. That’s no longer the case. People are fed up with Washington, D.C. And that clearly is a drag on my many colleagues like me who’ve lost their races.”
Despite the outcome of the crowded primary, Johnson looks to his future plans with optimism, not bitterness, and pledges that his work is not yet finished, citing previous success in the business and non-profit sectors.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., in the Cannon tunnel during the last votes of the week Feb. 15, 2024.(Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“Well, I don’t know yet. Of course, I’ve got to spend most of my time focused on my day job, which is being South Dakota’s only voice in the U.S. House of Representatives. I’ll do that until January, but listen, I know you can lead a life of consequence.
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“You can make a better society in business. I’ve done that before. In the nonprofit sector, in lesser elected office or government office. So, I don’t really know yet, but I do know that I’m surely not ready to retire. I’m 50, but I feel like a real young 50, and I’m still filled with plenty of piss and vinegar. Let’s go get it done.”
David Unsworth reports on Latin America. You can follow David Unsworth on Twitter @LatinAmerUpdate
