Last updated on July 21st, 2023 at 06:20 pm
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) explained on CBS’s Face The Nation why MAGA is a fascist movement.
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Transcript via Face The Nation:
MAJOR GARRETT: So, former President Trump says that MAGA Republicans are trying to save democracy, they want to be taken seriously on this issue. So let’s review what the former president said this week earlier. He said the 2020 election should be rerun, or he should be reinstated in office, and that if reelected in 2024, he would provide apologies and full pardons to those charged and or convicted for storming the Capitol on January 6, evaluate that.
REP. RASKIN: Well, first, if he’s saying that the election should be rerun, which is something he’s been asserting from the beginning, that’s totally outside of the Constitution. There is no procedure for the military just to seize the election machinery and run a new election, which is one of the things that his disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was pushing and we know was part of the January 6 plot. And look, more than 60 courts rejected every claim of electoral fraud and corruption which Donald Trump advanced. He’s had the benefit of more than 60 courts, including eight courts, where he appointed the judges to office, look at all those claims, and they were all rejected. It was rejected in the states and he lost the election. Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are one, they don’t accept the results of elections that don’t go their way and two, they embrace political violence. And I think that’s why President Biden was right to sound the alarm this week about these continuing attacks on our constitutional order from the outside by Donald Trump and his movement.
Rep. Raskin is correct. Fascists don’t accept election results and they use violence to maintain political power.
President Biden’s speech about fighting for the soul of America did something important. It got the country talking about fascism and the fascistic elements of Trump’s MAGA and the Republican Party.
Trump’s fundraising and rally slogan isn’t save democracy. It’s save America, but Trump appears to want to “save America” by destroying democracy and making himself the leader of an authoritarian state, and Jamie Raskin called it out.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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