{"id":1195303,"date":"2022-01-06T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T02:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195303"},"modified":"2022-01-06T21:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T02:34:24","slug":"jamie-raskin-decries-republicans-as-fascistic-shrinking-minority-party-at-january-6-vigil-partly-hosted-by-antifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jamie-raskin-decries-republicans-as-fascistic-shrinking-minority-party-at-january-6-vigil-partly-hosted-by-antifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Raskin Decries Republicans as Fascistic &#039;Shrinking Minority Party&#039; at January 6 Vigil Partly Hosted by Antifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjamie-raskin-decries-republicans-as-fascistic-shrinking-minority-party-at-january-6-vigil-partly-hosted-by-antifa%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195303&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jamie-Raskin-January-6-Vigil-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said during the January 6 Day of Remembrance and Action candlelight vigil, which Antifa partly organized, that Republicans are the \u201cshrinking minority party standing with the most authoritarian, fascistic elements of the whole country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raskin opened his speech at the candlelight vigil to claim that many pro-law enforcement Americans are \u201cphony.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Maryland Democrat asked rhetorically, \u201cAnd where are those phony defenders of law enforcement who only rear their ugly heads when some racist cop beats up an African-American citizen? We don\u2019t hear from them about January 6, do we?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raskin <a href=\"https:\/\/raskin.house.gov\/2020\/6\/raskin-cosponsors-justice-policing-act-2020\">backs<\/a> the Justice in Policing Act, which would weaken law enforcement\u2019s qualified immunity and make it harder for law enforcement to operate.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Raskin then proclaimed that most young Americans back the Democrat Party, while the Republican Party allegedly has backed the most \u201cauthoritarian\u201d elements of America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe young people on our side. The new Americans are on our side. They are a shrinking minority party standing with the most authoritarian, fascistic elements of the whole country,\u201d Raskin said.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin then cheered Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Liz Cheney (R-WY) for \u201cstanding up for Democracy.\u201d Kinzinger and Cheney, two Never Trump Republicans, serve on Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-CA) January 6 Select Committee and are frequent critics of the 45th president.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin also said that Republicans have control over many levers of the anti-democratic power such as \u201cgerrymandering\u201d congressional districts, the filibuster, and voter integrity bills, which he called \u201cvoter suppression tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and Andy Kim (D-NJ) also spoke at the candlelight vigil.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>More than 100 activist groups <a href=\"https:\/\/jan6unityday.org\/\">hosted<\/a> the candlelight vigil, including ShutDown DC:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On January 6 we are rising up for democracy. Join us on the National Mall. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aqTQjbyj1l\">https:\/\/t.co\/aqTQjbyj1l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ShutDownDC (@ShutDown_DC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShutDown_DC\/status\/1476273453615521793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>ShutDown DC was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutdowndc.org\/\">founded<\/a> in 2019 as an antifascist organization to \u201crespond to the Youth Climate Strikes\u2019 Call to Action. The group is committed to \u201canti-oppressive principles, transformative justice, and sustainable organizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ShutDown DC <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/05\/sen-hawley-blasts-antifa-scumbags-for-protest-at-his-home\/\">organized<\/a> a protest outside Sen. Josh Hawley\u2019s (R-MO) home in January 2021, in which the Antifa group threatened his wife and children. Patrick Young, a ShutDown DC organizer, defended the group\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>The group asked Hawley if the senator would be home on January 4 because they \u201cwere thinking of paying [him] a visit.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HawleyMO<\/a> are you going to be at your house in Virginia on January 4? We were thinking of paying you a visit but didn\u2019t want to miss you again. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tasmksG1dw\">https:\/\/t.co\/tasmksG1dw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ShutDownDC (@ShutDown_DC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShutDown_DC\/status\/1473810484616908805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>ShutDown DC similarly harassed Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), White House chief of staff Ron Klain, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>D.C. police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2021\/08\/24\/two-dozen-climate-activists-were-arrested-outside-the-white-house-chief-of-staffs-house-last-night\/\">arrested<\/a> 24 ShutDown DC protesters outside Klain\u2019s house in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>ShutDown DC protestors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/protesters-surround-lindsey-grahams-house-in-early-morning-to-discourage-supreme-court-nominee-vote\">surrounded<\/a>&nbsp; Graham\u2019s house calling on him to oppose then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Amy Comey Barrett\u2019s nomination in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) wrote a letter to Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) calling on them to condemn the candlelight vigil.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawley.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-01\/2022-01-06%20Letter%20to%20Pelosi%20and%20Schumer%20Final.pdf\">explained<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>The organizers behind this event have a history of engaging in extremist tactics to interfere with workings of democracy. During a week where you have vociferously condemned those who tried to obstruct congressional proceedings last January 6th, you must also be similarly willing to call out leftist activists who have also engaged in criminal acts to interfere with democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to political violence and criminal obstruction of government by the left, the silence by Democrats has been deafening. Democrats looked the other way when antifa rioters torched a federal courthouse in Portland. They did the same when left-wing rioters in Seattle seized power from a democratically elected government and tried to secede by creating a breakaway anarchist zone. And they did the same when hundreds unlawfully trespassed into the Senate to disrupt the nomination process of Justice Kavanaugh and then tried to breach the Supreme Court in an attempt to prevent Justice Kavanaugh from taking his oath.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>\u201cIf in fact you truly believe that attempts to interfere with democracy should be condemned, then you must break from your past silence and begin condemning those actions when they are committed by the left,\u201d Hawley concluded in his letter to Schumer and Pelosi. \u201cIt is imperative that you ask members of your caucus to shun groups like Shut Down DC and to cancel their plans to speak at their event.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMoran3\"><i>@SeanMoran3<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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