Rep. Jamie Raskin: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
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- The January 6 attack on Congress as it met to certify Joe Biden's presidential victory is a day that will live on in infamy, yet for Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin, this was just the next in a sequence of tragic events that changed his life forever. Having lost his son to suicide only days before, and days later leading the ensuing impeachment effort against Trump, Rep. Raskin’s 45-day journey at the start of 2021 is an inspiring epic of strength, tragedy and determination.
In his new memoir, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, Raskin recounts that after the tragic loss of his son Tommy, it was Tommy’s values and vision for the country that provided him inspiration to not only weather the challenges of January 6 but to lead the ensuing impeachment trial of Donald Trump for inciting insurrection. Facing division and the tremors of a nation rocked to its core, Rep. Raskin and his nine-member team were able to lead the most bipartisan impeachment trial ever conducted.
Rep. Raskin has served as an elected official in Maryland since 2007 and represented its 8th Congressional District since 2017. A professor of constitutional law at American University Washington College of Law, chair of the House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, Raskin has been a leading voice in Congress for executive accountability and electoral integrity.
Please join us as congressman Raskin recounts his moving story of balancing tragic personal loss and appalling political violence simultaneously, and how he found hope to press on in his darkest moment to continue fighting for American democracy.
NOTES
This program is part of our Good Lit series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation.
Special thanks to Common Sense Media.
Photo by Dana Jung.
MARCH 14, 2022
SPEAKERS
Jamie Raskin
U.S. Representative (D-MD, 8th District); Author, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trails of American Democracy; Twitter @RepRaskin
Welcome by: Jim Steyer
Founder, Common Sense Media
Marisa Lagos
Correspondent for California Politics and Government, KQED; Twitter @mlagos-Moderator
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Please Congressman Raskin, I'm begging you, run for president in 2024!
We need you so badly! We need someone who's honest, moral, intelligent, empathic & able to stand up to the liars on the " other side" !
Btw, I'd love it if Katie Porter was your VP! 😆
Love Jaime Raskin!!!! He is the kind of President we need!!! Thank you Jaime for all the work you do. God bless you and yours!
Yes!!!!
We are soooooo ready for a Leader of intellectual acumen and moral integrity
You sure got it with Biden , 😂🤣🤮
We are ready to jail anti-American personalities in the western US. Not pedastal them like in the east and midwest.
@@sueblood7793 Harris and Ratskin have that intellectual acumen. But. we don't need it.
Rep. Raskin is a great American!
Jamie Raskin is one of my heroes! So blessed to hear such a man of integrity speak with truth and clarity and hope!!
Wow, what a man, what a mighty good man! So proud he is on our side.
He should run 2024! 🇺🇲
I admire this man SO MUCH. Please Mr. Raskin, one day, run for President. We need you!!!
Not one day, we need him NOW!!
@@joannbowden6220 In stocks, maybe. I can't abide enemies of my people.
From the state of Louisiana, THANK YOU Rep. Raskin for your firm, truthful, stand during these troubled times. You give me hope America will hold fast to the principle of law and every vote will be counted and "We the people" shall prevail. I respect you and love your spirit.
Jamie Raskin is a most incredible person. We are so lucky to have him in Congress.
Lucky to have a Marxist in congress? Is that what you said?
@@raynaylor8602 Jamie Raskin is not a Marxist. Where do you get this disinformation?
This is what integrity looks like! Thank you !
Thank you Jamie Raskin, Liz Cheney, and Adam Kinzinger for all your hard work.
Cheney is awful except for this one issue
Did Fox Entertainment go to black screen during televising the Jan 6 hearings when the Sean Hannity and Lauar Ingrahim texts were shown?
@@SEATTLEPRO …… well this one thing (January 6th committee) is pretty freaking great ……. And if it helps to end that malignant narcissistic (trump) she, and everyone involved, will deserve high praise and a place of honor in our history!!!!!
Jamie Raskin is not only a true patriot, but also a national treasure.
I agree 100%!!
I actually thought I wrote your comment---it's exactly what I think & this is my 2nd viewing.
Well-expressed.
I am thankful for men of integrity like Rep. Raskin!
Raskin/Porter 2024!
Wow! Now that would be one helluva helluva! ;)
We're really blessed to have a public servant with dear Mr Raskin's heart, intellect and humility. He also doesn't shy away from a fight and has razor sharp arguments when needed.
Please run for president. World needs you.
Jamie Raskin is exactly what America needs. He is a voice of reason amidst the chaos of the red hat demonology.
Congressman Raskin, I truly thank you and love you for your service to America. With so very many others, I consider you my Democratic North Star!
This is what it looks like when someone truly wants to be a public servant! Show me one person on the Republican side with the same drive and passion as Representative Raskin.
Jamie Raskin would make a great President.
Jamie for President
"It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very deeply"
David Jones
Jamie Raskin is a true hero in congress 👏
I learned more about Jan 6th from this video than all the other news sites combined. It's heart breaking the GOP won't tell their people the truth.
Please stand for President
That would be comrade president if that unmitigated disaster ever befalls this country.
Can we get Raskin to run for president? He knows pain. He knows sorrow. He knows the law. He knows hope.
🙄
@@teresabarnes-matych That’s your response? Do you seriously disagree that Raskin, who lost a son to suicide, knows pain and sorrow yet, through his actions, continues to demonstrate hope for representative democracy? OK, Trumplican 🙄
@@valhalla7408 🙄✌️
Jamie Raskin, you heal my tears that have moistened my face so many times these last years. You remind me there are many good people in our country.
Sorry but over 70% of white men and women voted for trump;who do you think tge majority of these good Americans look like? America refuses to stop feeding on the evil that is racism while denying it exists.
Thank you so much...Mr. Raskin is a very great man, as well as being a constitutional law scholar. I am so very sorry that he and his wife lost their brilliant empathetic son to suicide, a tragic loss. Mr. Raskin's role on the Jan. 6 Hearings committee is of inestimable value in a time when we are fractions of seconds away from losing our democracy.
Jamie Raskin is so intellectually astute he should run for President, also such a down to earth and lovely guy, knows the score
Thank you Jamie, you are my hero
Great interview!
Very well spoken Mr. Raskin !
God bless you and God bless America 🇺🇸
Thank you 🙏
Thank you Rep. Raskin for showing us what the meaning of service to your country means & living in honor of your amazing son .
Please run for President !!!!!
👏 Brilliantly said, the GOP insists on dragging us back to issues of a past century instead of dealing with urgency of the moment topics like climate change, etc....
Love Jamie, blessed to have him !
Yeah, just think how bad America would be without his landmark BARK legislation attaching funding for emergency pet supplies to the school nutrition program.
When we let our Hearts lead, we cannot go wrong! Thank you, Jamie Raskin & all Empaths serving us in public office. It is the more difficult road to travel but so rewarding to our Country, made up of Immigrants from all over the World.
You might want to get your hands on as much non perishable food as you possibly can. With that kind of blind loyalty Jamie is sure to succeed in his wish to bring the scourge of Marxism to this country, if or when that happens you’ll definitely be going hungry.
🙄🤡
@@raynaylor8602 the scourge of hunger is already loosed up on this planet.
The pollution from fossil fuels, over consumption, climate crisis bringing insufferable heat and drought and reviving long forgotten viruses are mostly gifts of the ego centric capitalists who feel like all they need is money and power.
They cannot conceive of having to fight for even one more breath before they die of a situation they created.
@@raynaylor8602 did trump tell you that?
@@raynaylor8602 what is Marxism?
Excellent presentation
Thank you for your courage, dedication, grit, hard work, and love for democracy. Your inspiration is a comfort and gives me hope. It also energizes me to do more to preserve our democracy which I never in my life dreamed would be at risk.
He doesn’t love democracy, he’s a Marxist. What’s wrong with you people? And just so you know we don’t have a democracy for you to preserve, never have. The founders deliberately avoided democracy. They considered democracy mob rule, and rightly so. That’s why Demarxocrats say it every to seconds, to change its definition and fool you. We have a constitutional republic.
@@raynaylor8602 I am not "you people." And you are not really saying something credible for me to believe in substance and tone. Maybe if you come across a little bit less aggressive I would listen to your thoughts, one by one, in a calm, rational manner.
The world will be a better place if Raskin became President of the USA
And KATIE PORTER AS HIS VICE PRESIDENT with her white board. Both the greatest politicians and teachers of DEMOCRACY TODAY.
Love Jamie's last quote. Memories.
Raskin is a national treasure and the quality of person the Republicans cannot even understand much less rise to the quality of. Today's Republicans govern by playing to the lowest category of human beings, the lowest instincts of humanity- fear, hate, racism, misogyny, bigotry, the stupidity of denying anything they don't like and the worship of demagogues and grifters. Raskin has a luminous moral center, a quality unknown to Republicans, who don't even know right from wrong.
Why not just say, "deplorables"? The reason that didn't "work" for Hilary, nor does attempting to spell it out, definitively, is that coming off as self-righteously "better than thou", is simply being the obverse & as meaningly offensive, "woke". That type of blanket characterization NEVER helps to resolve differences & only highlights & exacerbates them, while utterly destroying whatever scant opportunities to explore commonalities that may exist. If that's your self-gratifying/-congratulating objective, then you may as well crawl in the dark holes occupied by those you admonish.
Re: Misled/Counterpurposed Supporters. Why not just say, "deplorables"? The reason that didn't "work" for Hilary, nor does attempting to spell it out, definitively, is that coming off as self-righteously "better than thou", is simply being the obverse, & as meaninglessly offensive, "woke". I'd wager that Rep. Raskin would agree that such blanket characterizations NEVER helps to resolve differences & only highlights & exacerbates them, while utterly destroying whatever scant opportunities to explore commonalities that may exist. If that's your self-gratifying/-congratulating objective, then you may as well crawl into one the dark holes along side those you admonish & only wish to further alienate.
J. Raskin: "The highest office in democracy is that of CITIZEN", right on! @veritas6335, Re: Misled/Counterpurposed Supporters. Why not just say, "deplorables"? The reason that didn't "work" for Hilary, nor does attempting to spell it out, definitively, is that coming off as self-righteously "better than thou", is simply being the obverse, & as meaninglessly offensive, "woke". I'd wager that Rep. Raskin would agree that such blanket characterizations NEVER helps to resolve differences & only highlights & exacerbates them, while utterly destroying whatever scant opportunities to explore commonalities that may exist. If that's your self-gratifying/-congratulating objective, then you may as well crawl into one the dark holes along side those you admonish & only wish to further alienate.
Just got his book on audio! Looking forward to to listening to a very intelligent gentleman!
One of the sane politicians we have n congress!
Just my opinion
❤️🌻❤️
And a Marxist too. Your opinion is dangerously uninformed.
This is a great interview. Found very insightful and informative, thank you. Aligns very closely to own thoughts and principles. Besides to the content, relate to Tommy stories, would love to get and read the book which unfortunately can not afford now.
Look after each other. Everyone counts - equally. Democracy experiment in a critical position.
Stay safe
Please use your public library for any needs. You can also apply to NEW YORK CITY LIBRARY to get books on line if you live in a state like mine, FLORIDA, where DESANTIS encourages ignorance. JAMIE RASKIN and KATIE PORTER FOR PRESIDENT and VICE PRESIDENT IN 2028. PRESENTLY our greatest politicians who are always our NORTH STAR in POLITICAL DEMOCRACY.
Have you considered running for President?
LONG LIVE AMERICA AND AMERICANS
There are many elements in the constitution that are based on enlightenment principles and are still relevant today !
However, like so many archaic and outmoded laws and notions our constitution needs to be upgraded , modified and amended to reflect the realities of the nation today !
And JAMIE RASKIN NEEDS TO LEAD A GROUP OF INDEPENDENT DEMOCRACY THINKING CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYERS TO DO THIS WORK TO UPGRADE OUR CURRENT CONSTITUTION WITH THE ORIGINAL FRAMERS IN MIND.
Jamie Raskin is great person, I only wish there was more people like him. It seems like there use to be.
So sorry ever so much about the loss of your beautiful son.
Jamie raskin is the man that young men should aspire to be like!
I’d vote for Jamie in a split second. Such clarity in an individual is rare.
You're right ! We've been traumatized.
The whole world has been traumatized.
By wicked men doing wicked things.
First time subscriber. I love Jamie Raskin. I got to learn about him during J6 committee hearings. He speaks in a way we can all understand quite easily. Been watching U.S. politics my whole life from 🇨🇦 Prison For Trump
Well Done, BRAVO!!!
He is the hallmark of public servant. A light so bright it will never ever go out. I dream of the day of hugging him and thanking him. In the darkest of moments listening to him whether on the House Floor, on the “news”, or at events-I receive healing. Gd bless him, his family, and strong boy, Tommy. ❤️🙏🏼
Loved the introduction given. The man was so kind and uplifting ❤
Love Jamie Raskin. 💙❤💙
Jamie, is brilliant. Proceeds of his books, ‘trauma’ could support the poor and needy.
Beautiful Jamie Raskin !🎶😊🦋🪐☺️
tRump & Pootin are like the Pinky & the Brain cartoon 🙄
I adore Jamie Raskin!
wish he was an MP in UK politics - would wipe the floor with our current UK politicians.
Yes, our future children will balk at the absolute stupidity of this age.
I just adore him❤he fills my heart every time he speaks
I couldn’t love and admire his integrity, intellectual brilliance, humanity. We are deeply thankful there are such icons among us. Raskin for President!
Remarkable man. Inspired and inspiring. Thank you.
Rule or ruin is spot on!
.Love this brilliant man
you know he really stands
for the people. My heart goes out to him and family
may God comfort you. I really hope he can run for
President one day. You give
hope for my race native American. We had a hospital there is something
fishy going because we don't have E. R. any more.
Among other wrong things
like missing indigenous people. And land disputes.
Thanks for your hard work
I will still be praying for our
countrys leaders. 🙏✌️
The Acumen and Integrity. Jamie has great genes.
Thank Senator Raskin. Thank you so very much.
Jamie Raskin is the kind of MEN we need serving our country
The classical role of government is to tax away economic rents and use it to lower the cost of production. This is done through subsidies for such things as public infrastructure, education, and health care, not raising the cost of living and therefore the cost of labor, as with monopolistic privatization.
The problem with economics as it is understood in America, is that there is no distinction between wealth production and wealth extraction. Production of goods and services speaks for itself, but monopolies and the banks (FIRE, finance, insurance, and real estate) extract what is called economic rent. In the US, economic rent is counted as an addition to GDP, when in fact it is an extraction from GDP. The free market Adam Smith talked about is free FROM economic rent, not free FOR economic rent.
This is Industrial Capitalism (China) as opposed to Financial Capitalism (USA), and it is what the conflict is really all about.
American democracy is entirely theatrical with the majority having no more effect on the rentier oligarchy than the Chinese majority on the Communist Party of China.
If the US was a democracy, we would have a decent minimum wage, public health care, free education, parental leave, and gun control, to name a few, all by the expressed will of the majority.
By definition, an oligarchy is a form of government in which power is held by a small number of people. Republics are a type of democracy in which the people elect representatives to create and vote on legislation, rather than voting on that legislation themselves.
We have institutionalized opposition at best, not representation at all.
🇺🇸 Raskin for President 🇺🇸
I like Jamie Raskin , a good American scholar.
A GREAT AMERICAN SCHOLAR
I hope you run for president. You got my vote
Question? Jamie, How can people keep Ignoring Supenas from congress, which is supposed to the strongest part of our government? Mr. Raskin, are you you ever run for president?
Mr Raskin is brilliant and dedicated and the best public servant we have. Kudos to this fine human being, a credit to the human race. However, he really needs to rethink his shoes.
This conversation would contribute well to a thorough-going listening, dissection, analysis, sourcing of the threads introduced, both warp and weft, in a course for the young---a quarter in a school year would profit beautifully.
❤️ JAMIE RASKIN
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I Love JAMIE RASKIN because he's one of the few Dem's that don't take any shit and lies from maggots. He stands up for the Constitution and knows the laws forward and backwards. I have never seen a maggot keep interrupting him because he breaks them down with the law and accuses them of their crimes. HE ALWAYS STAYS ON TOPIC WITH AN OPPONENT. HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HEAD OF THE JAN 6 COMMITTEE. PLEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT. I AM AMAZED EVERY TIME I WATCH YOU. I AM SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS AND THAT BIG PIECE OF YOUR LIFE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR MORAL SERVICE AND YOUR LOVE OF DEMOCRACY FOR YOUNG AND OLD. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE
This man for President ASAP!
Jaime lifetime here with the planet is the seed that is planted for this planet so I hope we all of our lives should really respect what stand for and that.isONE LOVE
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It's interesting that Rep. Raskin sits on the edge of his seat the entire time. That's what we've all been doing for the last 5 years. Sitting anticipatorily on the edges of our seats, and in the last few years, waiting for something to be done about the damage Trump and his sycophants have done. Also, and this is really astounding to intelligent, articulate people, we have people like this in our government who understand they are servants of the people, devote themselves to those causes, and express themselvs coherently and concisely. Compare that the word salads and obvious lack of intelligence of Trump, Greene, Boebert, Gaetz, and hopefully not Herschel Walker.
Good no-holds-barred story on the Fed nomination in the New Yorker:
Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws Her Nomination to the Federal Reserve Board
Biden’s nominee had publicly encouraged measures to mitigate climate change, including a transition to cleaner energy, which triggered a backlash from America’s powerful oil, gas, and coal industries.
By Jane Mayer
The New Yorker
March 15, 2022
Politucal Courage YES. Rep Raskin keep calling out the pol COWARDS! NEVER MIND political Correctness! Continue to speak and stand in ur truth & b a role MODEL.
Marxists are not the role model of thinking people.
THE WAR FOR TRUTH LETS DO IT
Amen Thomas Payne !!
Everything Jamie said on the broadcast is still absolutely true and applicable to the 2024 vote. God bless you Jamie. I hope America remembers Nancy Pelosi and the nurturance she gave not only through the dark days of the insurrection but throughout her amazing career. I hope you enjoy a long and happy retirement with your husband and family.
Why were Reps denied the opportunity to choose whom they wanted to represent them on the Jan 6 committee? If everything was on the up and up that shouldn’t have been a problem!
Your information is incorrect.
Why did the Capital Police move guard rails and open the Capital doors encouraging supporters to enter?
Capitol police were vastly outnumbered, so they let some protesters who approached them peacefully into the Capitol building.
Thank you For sharing Jaime…good luck and God Speed love your politics!
Jamie Raskin is a great Congressman. Biden you have to go to Universities and Colleges to reach youth.
Terrible interviewer! Let the man talk, for God's sake... But great listening to Raskin's take on the events of January 6.
She drives me crazy. She is so inarticulate. “You guys”.
Please teach Colbert what you have said today - making fun of Biden is not funny given the Trump racism, fascism and ruination of our economy.
Of course Colbert can make fun of Biden.
Do you actually think that silencing a comedian will stop the deranged?
Furthermore, just out of principle, no one is free of being made fun of - especially leaders and powerful people.
@@auritone Well said!
You are jumping on the liars train!
You trample the law
There was NO insurrection!!
Need to investigate how he got to be a constitutional scholar when he goes against it daily!!what a weasel he needs to be removed !
Your sheriff will tell you that they traffic heroin.
Jamie Raskin for PRESIDENT!
Why can he not run for 2024?
If a mother or father lose a child because of drugs!!??
Ahh!! Perhaps!!
Raskin 2024
As a citizen lay person, I could have done a better job than the interviewer Marisa Lagos. She is a prime example of the California Valley-Speak person (every fourth word is "like"). She is obviously incapable in that role.
Cassandra
Please answer my question ? Are you welling to work with the Democrat too ?