Jamie Raskin Has a Fierce, Funny Message for Dispirited Democrats

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https://newrepublic.com/article/13909...

"We are going to revitalize you. We are going to re-musicalize, re-idealize you, re-democratize you, renew you, refresh you, rescue you, resuscitate you, reanimate you, reinstate you and reactive you!"

"They can make a white supremacist [Steve Bannon] the chief strategist for the White House. They can make an anti-public school activist [Betsy DeVos] the secretary of education. They can make Jeff Sessions the attorney general of the United States of America, but my friends, we are still here."

"They can put Goldman Sachs back in charge of the Treasury Department, but we are still here. They can try to dismantle the EPA, but we are still here. They can put a fox in charge of every hen house—they can put the Joker, the Riddler, and the Penguin in charge of Gotham City—but we are still here, and we’re not going anywhere."

"We’re not letting any prepped-out Harvard Business School neo-Nazi strategize us into becoming Germany 1933 and we will not let a cabinet of robber barons and white nationalists destroy everything the civilizing movements of the last century created."

Laying into Trump, Raskin struck some Maureen Dowd-ish notes, variously calling the president-elect “the Wizard of Bankruptcy,” “the King of Debt and Sweetheart Contracts,” and “the Prince of Tax Avoidance.” But his best dig was a classic: “We are not a country that grabs other people by the genitals as a form of social introduction.”

"There’s something that we know that Donald Trump and Stephen Bannon want us to forget. America is a good country. We are not a racist country. We are not an alt-right country. ... The alt-right is alt-wrong, but the USA is all right."