Immediately calling out his Republican colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) scorched Vladimir Putin’s “cheerleaders” in Congress and urged People to face on the “proper aspect of historical past.”
Raskin, a member of the Home committee investigating the 2021 rebellion on the U.S. Capitol, lashed “the very distinguished gentlelady from Georgia” for her feedback final month on a radio program through which she blamed Ukraine for being invaded by Russia as a result of it “just kept poking the bear.”
“We have now members of Congress who’re cheerleaders for Vladimir Putin, and are voices of nothing however defeatism, fatalism and pessimism for democracy in Europe,” Raskin mentioned, “and they also attempt to distract us with loads of phony rhetoric about different points.” He then referenced Greene’s declare that NATO was supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s personal justification for its invasion.
“My pals, we’ve to resolve which aspect we’re on,” he continued.
Raskin mentioned People throughout World Struggle II didn’t watch Nazis march down the road in Europe and say there have been “very advantageous folks on either side,” a reference to former President Donald Trump’s feedback concerning the lethal white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2019.
“They didn’t begin cheerleading for Mussolini and Hitler and Franco,” he added. “And but we’ve folks right here who exit and converse on the aspect of Vladimir Putin.”
Raskin and Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued a decision Friday calling for Might 4 to be recognized as a “National Day of Reason” in America.
The decision is a “name to rejoice purpose, empirical inquiry, information, details, and science because the guideposts for democratic progress,” the lawmakers mentioned in an announcement.
“Proper now, authoritarian despots from Moscow to Mar-a-Lago are selling conspiracy theories, bigotry and propaganda to undermine the habits of essential considering and logical reasoning which are central to our democracy,” mentioned Raskin. “We have to fight the flood of disinformation and lies as a way to restore fact and purpose to their rightful place in our democracy.”
