“On December 31, 2020, Tommy Raskin, the only son of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, tragically took his own life after a long struggle with depression. Seven days later on January 6, Congressman Raskin returned to Congress to help certify the 2020 Presidential election results, when violent insurrectionists led by right wing extremist groups stormed the US Capitol hoping to hand four more years of power to President Donald Trump.†This is the opening description for Congressman Jamie Raskin’s new book, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy.
In this segment of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc welcomes Congressman Raskin back on the show for a thoughtful and heartfelt discussion about Raskin’s new book, his son Tommy, the Jan. 6 insurrection, and the fight to leave our children a world worth living in. Congressman Jamie Raskin has served as the US representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district since 2017.
Tune in for new episodes of The Marc Steiner Show every Monday and Thursday on TRNN.
Read the transcript of this interview:
Pre-Production/Studio: Dwayne Gladden
Post-Production: Stephen Frank, Dwayne Gladden
Help us continue producing The Marc Steiner Show by following us and making a small donation:
Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-yt-st
Sign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-yt-st
Get The Marc Steiner Show updates: https://therealnews.com/up-yt-st
Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnews
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews
** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) **
Democracy is an existential threat to our Constitutional Republic conservatives are not fascist racist most of them don't want the cult of frankinwoke and it's train to cancel camp telling people what to do the left demands censorship of conservative speech while saying they are fascist racist when real fascist have always been are the book burners and censors
Baskin lied in front of the world though. The time stamps were edited.
Great book and great man. I also lost my 26 year old the same way..Thank you for your deep care of America and I know what your feeling. I am so sorry and how lucky your Tommy was to have a Great Dad like you. â¤ï¸
So first he fucks up his kid, then thinks he can save the rest of us? Fuckn him and China joe Brandon.
Not only is the filibuster anti-democratic but the entire Senate is anti-democratic. A citizen from California has 1/55th the representation in the Senate as a citizen from Alaska. The Republicans have 50% of the Senate but only represent 30% of the population. This is magnified by the filibuster. Getting rid of the Senate would save a lot of money. Keep Congress and the executive and judicial branches, and change judicial branch to eight year terms.The Senate is not democratic. A citizen from California has 1/55th the representation in the Senate as a citizen from Alaska. The Republicans have 50% of the Senate but only represent 30% of the population. This is magnified by the filibuster. Getting rid of the Senate would save a ton of money. Keep Congress the executive and judicial branches to balance power and change judicial branch to eight year terms.
Maybe the democrats could actually be a party in which the people could choose the candidates, rather than having the party officials loading the dice?
I'm sure that the republicans do that too, but which party is going to be the one to finally create a society of freedom and democracy? I see the republicans supporting a maximizing of freedom of those of means and the democrats running behind them saying us too, occasionally glancing back quickly and suggesting maybe there might be some limits on that somewhere. So much of the rest of the differences are small.
Neither one wants to maximize freedom and democracy for the greatest number of Americans. The republicans fight to keep the libertarians out and the democrats fight to keep the greens and socialists out of the process. They are about freedom and democracy as long as it doesn't cut a piece out of their action. They stand on principle until it becomes inconvenient. Look at their actions. Judge by that. Push them or they won't do right.
Democrats are the real destroyers of democracy. Raskin has conveniently forgotten the his party are the founders of the KKK.
Gerrymandering, packing the courts, voter suppression, filibusters, packing the courts … are very old tricks, it isn't news to you, why haven't you addressed them for decades now and pretend it is a new fight.
So his argument is basically "get out and vote lesser of two evils again, its the only way".
Sorry man, the neoliberals are dragging us into authoritarianism just as fast as republicans. The only question is whether our dystopian future will be one of far-right fake populist tyranny or fake left corporate-oligarchy tyranny. This talk is like a fluff article in a gradeschool newspaper in the face of the true problems we are facing.
Sorry, I don't mean to be insulting, but it is what it is.
Trauma inflicted by politicians
Thank you
God will decide
Life is Christ; the cross is coming my dear friends
Did you imagine Christ? God help us through this time and do your will
Trump's authoritarianism? Delusional. When the white house asks private industry to censor anyone who apposes them, THAT is authoritarianism.
Hey Marc Steiner â— gtsy â—. ðŸ–ï¸ðŸ˜„💜
THEY CHOSE TO BE CRIMINAL, NOW ALL THE LIES TO COVER IT UP!
I am truly very sorry for his son's loss. I had to turn volume off to write this. It saddens me to say I completely disagree. These right groups are a product of a failed government, it would only make sense that a takeover would be hostile! A hundred years of TYRANNY deserves no less!
The framing of this entire thing is once again that the failed liberal class and its failed Democratic party are 'the good guys' and Republicans- well, except Bush, liberals LOVE Bush now, and McCain… and Cheney… but I digress- are the uneducated, backwater folk that are trying to effect a fascist state. In other words, neoliberalism's gaslighting of the failures of neoliberalism. If you don't know by now the entire system has to go you haven't woken up yet.
Train high schools and colleges on being communist marxists!