Congressman Jamie Raskin rightly calls the GOP a "cult"

Published in The Hill: Congressman Jamie Raskin: The GOP is reduced to a ‘cult of authoritarian personality’: Echo report by Tara Suter.

Congressman from Maryland Jamie Raskin has been part of the Democrat judiciary team in the Trump impeachment inquiry and the impeachment itself.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said Wednesday the GOP is being “reduced to a cult of authoritarian personality” after former President Trump nearly swept the Super Tuesday Republican primary states. (Shame on the Republicans for intransient views in support of a criminal who is indicted for sexual assault against E. Jean Carroll and facing 91 indictments in three states and the District of Columbia, who is charged with misappropriation of money received from donors, to divert to payments made to a porn star Stormy Daniels, to cover up that he paid to have sex with her.)

“[I]t is disgraceful that a great political party, much less Abraham Lincoln’s party, a party of liberty and union, should be reduced to a cult of authoritarian personality in league with autocrats and kleptocrats and dictators all over the world,” Raskin said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”

Raskin’s comments came as Trump’s last GOP primary rival, Nikki Haley, dropped out of the race Wednesday. However, she didn’t endorse Trump and said he’d have to earn the backing of her supporters.

“I applaud Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, The Lincoln Project, all of the Republicans who are standing up for the Constitution, but what we’ve seen in this election, and we’ll have to follow what happens with Nikki Haley, is the Republicans break, but they can’t bend,” Raskin continued.

“In other words, there’s no ability to accommodate other views because everybody has to follow Donald Trump, like he is a self proclaimed a monarch.”

Haley, Trump’s former United Nations ambassador, stepped up her attacks on Trump as the campaign wore on, and he often viciously attacked her with nicknames like “birdbrain.” Trump also at one point said donors to Haley were barred from his MAGA movement.

“At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away,” Haley said Wednesday in remarks from Charleston, S.C. “And our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing.”

January 6, wall like insects or alien monsters, climbing insurrectionist terrorists invading the U.S. Capitol.

Raskin was a leading figure in Trump’s second impeachment for his role in the January 6 Capitol attack, and served on the House January 6 committee alongside Kinzinger and Cheney. 

Now, Raskin is the ranking member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, making him a chief defender of President Biden amid GOP probes into Hunter Biden’s business dealings.