State Rep. Justin Jones: ‘If We’re Serious About the Threat of Fascism, That Means That There’s Nothing off the Table’

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Back to the show. Nice to see you.
>> Always good to be with you, brother.
>> Let’s talk about this. You you know this. You are living this. Not only have you done it, but you actually got reelected by your constituents to go back and fight some more. You have set this flavor out there a while ago that people want fighters. And right now voters are screaming out for this. They want people who will say, your morals should be good, but if they’re there burning the house down, you need to do something.
>> I mean, that’s exactly right, brother Ali. You know the.
>> House is.
>> On fire. We have to stop pretending like we don’t smell the smoke. It’s time for America to wake up and put our morals above.
>> Our manners.
>> Now is not the time to engage in.
>> In trying to.
>> Play patty cake with a party that’s been captured by.
>> Fascists and neo-confederates.
>> There is no bipartisanship. Anymore with the party.
>> That is intent.
>> On maintaining.
>> Minority rule between tech.
>> Oligarchs.
>> White supremacists.
>> And Christian nationalists. They want a minority run government, and.
>> They’re willing.
>> To do this at any means necessary. We must fight back. You know, I think.
>> That. We’ll be judged not by.
>> What we do, but by what we don’t do to future generations. Now is the time.
>> To lean into the instinct to say that we must meet with.
>> Proportionate response the forces that we face. And so we can look our children, our future generations in the face and say, we did everything in our.
>> Power to stand.
>> Up and fight back, to save our democracy. Because if we’re