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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) may want to avoid shutting down the federal government, but former GOP strategist Rick Wilson warns that he may have little option. Writing on his Substack newsletter, Wilson compared extremist House Republicans to “children with chainsaws” and said there was little chance of them not doing something self-destructive in the coming weeks. In fact, he said that even if Johnson wanted to do something productive, he would refrain from doing so given his fear of being hounded out of office. “The do-nothing Chaos Caucus rules the roost, still in possession of the ma…