The third-term congressman was at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center on Sunday morning talking about his new book, “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy.” Raskin discussed his son, his friendship with Rep. In the above comment, Raskin was talking about losing his only son (he and his wife have two daughters), but in some ways he also could have been speaking of the state of the country. “I think trauma is like a thief that steals everything from you that is most precious and the most beloved that makes life meaningful, and just when it’s the end of everything, trauma also connects you to other people and binds you in a much deeper way to other people’s humanity than you could ever imagine,” said Raskin, who spent more than 25 years as a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law before his election.
Abigail Spanberger once called the funniest man in Congress, the life-changing events made Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, a more serious person. Six days later, with Raskin back in the halls of Congress to complete the perfunctory task alongside other lawmakers to confirm the 2020 Presidential electoral vote count, a mob of insurrectionists took over the Capitol trying to stop the peaceful transition of power.įor someone who fellow Rep. The young man wasn’t just a brilliant student but a prolific writer, slam poet and jazz and blues pianist who often displayed a sharp sense of humor. 31, 2020, Raskin’s son, Tommy, a second-year Harvard Law School student, died by suicide after having battled depression. Jamie Raskin experienced two traumatic and completely unrelated events that would have been unthinkable days before they occurred. He is pictured with Joan Kuhn, center, program director at the Chappaqua Public Library, which scheduled the event. "Well my goodness, it's a horrible thing, what he went through, but it doesn't change the fact of, uh, his political beliefs," she said, "and I believe he's a communist and I believe what he's doing on the January 6th Committee is completely wrong.Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), author of “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy,” following his talk at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center on Sunday morning. Greene then stated the quiet part out loud. And the country shouldn't have to go through all that with him." "And I do think it clouds his judgment and you could see that, that very darkness and that pain manifest on Thursday in a way that's not particularly relevant to the challenges that we've talked about, but it might be deeply relevant to what he's going through. "But I think for Jamie Raskin, it's really like, his service in the Congress has almost become like inextricably attached to this sad personal trauma he's had," Gaetz proclaimed. "And we want to vindicate the rights of our citizens and we want to champion their causes and battle their dislikes," Gaetz remarked. "We're not here out of a sense of grievance or hatred. "Well and we love this country," Gaetz added. "We're here to serve the people," Greene interjected. "You know, we try to come to the job to uplift people," Gaetz resumed. But I think that he takes that trauma and he associates it now with his work in the Congress to such an interwoven way that he's unable to do the congressional experience outside of just the dungeon of that personal trauma," Gaetz continued, "and I think it makes him look at everything in these very like, dark and severe ways." "As human beings, our hearts go out to him. And what I worry about for the Congress and for Jamie Raskin, you know, no one would ever want to lose a child, particularly to suicide," said Gaetz. "When people encounter trauma, they often associate a lot of the other things around that trauma with it, even if they don't naturally or even rationally associate. Now, with just 24 hours remaining before public hearings revealing what the bipartisan congressional commission has found begin, Gaetz and Greene have launched a new and unusually cruel offensive against Raskin. Raskin also sits on the Select Committee investigating the attack, which was triggered (at least in part) by Republican lawmakers refusing to acknowledge President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election at Trump's behest. Raskin served as the House of Representatives' manager of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment for inciting the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection. United States Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) appeared on a recent edition of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia)'s podcast and suggested that Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) is unable to do his job because his son committed suicide. This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
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