Blue America Candidate Jamie Raskin Delivers Verbal Knockout Punch To Bannon
Jamie Raskin is one of our winning Blue America candidates, and he just delivered a barnburner of a speech -- just what we need to be energized -- last night at an appearance with Elizabeth Warren. Via New Republic:
“They can make a white supremacist the chief strategist for the White House,” he said, invoking Steve Bannon. “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.”
The “we’re still here” message echoed Bill Maher’s defiant theme after the election—a slogan HBO is now selling on baseball caps. But Raskin elaborated on it, even working in a Batman metaphor:
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.