Rep. Raskin: Trump Wants to Conduct ‘Some Kind of Mussolini-Style Military March Across the Country, Subduing All the Local Populations’

BROWN: “So, just right off the bat, what is your reaction from what we just heard from those top officials there in Chicago?”

RASKIN: “Well, I think Governor Pritzker was speaking for states and cities across the country. You know, nobody wants a military invasion. I think Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and Trump’s handlers thought that he would conduct some kind of Mussolini-style military March across the country, subduing all the local populations, but it’s completely backfiring on them because it’s really unifying all of the local communities against Trump and against this outrageous authoritarianism. They tried to do it in California. It mobilized, really, not just L.A., but the entire state against them. And now California is gerrymandering back at the extreme gerrymandering in Texas. They try to do it in D.C., it unified their mayor and council and their local attorney general, and people are now more emphatic about fighting for statehood so they won’t be subject to this kind of colonial subjection in the future. And it clearly unified all of those public officials in Chicago, throughout Illinois. You saw the members of the congressional delegation, the senators, the attorney general, as well as the governor and the mayor. And so, he’s really unifying America around the principles of home rule, people can govern themselves. And, by the way, give back the hundreds of millions of dollars that you stole away from local law enforcement and victims’ rights groups and domestic violence groups when DOGE just cancelled all of those grants back in March and April. Just like the people in D.C. are saying, give back the billion dollars that they were going to spend of local revenue on law enforcement, criminal justice and public education. So, I think that they’ve maybe bitten off more than they can chew here and they’re unifying the country against them. And Governor Pritzker was right to say that this is in the spirit of non-violence, non-violent resistance and opposition to authoritarian takeover.”