Jamie Raskin on CNN Says 'NOBODY' Voted for Trump's Brand of 'Conservatism'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

May 23rd, 2025, 11:14 pm


Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) blasted Vice President JD Vance and the Trump administration’s approach to executive power in his appearance on CNN’s OutFront Friday, accusing the White House of promoting “authoritarianism” and not “conservatism.”

Guest host Erica Hill asked Raskin to respond to comments Vance made on The New York Times’ Interesting Times podcast. In that interview, Vance claimed district courts were at risk of “overturning the will of the American people” through judicial overreach. He called for more restraint from lower courts or intervention by the Supreme Court.

Raskin dismissed Vance’s argument and said the Ohio Republican had ignored basic legal principles established centuries ago. “I think that JD Vance’s Yale Law School education was completely wasted on him,” Raskin said. He further argued that the courts are responsible for checking unconstitutional actions regardless of whether they originate from the president, Congress, or state governments. “That’s not that complicated. Americans understand that,” Raskin said.

He further accused Vance and President Donald Trump of hypocrisy, and claimed “nobody” voted for their brand of governance. Raskin told Hill:

That’s not something that any of the Republicans believed during the Biden administration when they were bringing lawsuits on a weekly or monthly basis to try to strike down everything that Joe Biden was doing in terms of climate policy, in terms of forgiving student loans, you know, how soon they forget. But in any event, that’s clearly the role of the judicial department.

And there’s a record number of injunctions that have been entered against the lawlessness and the chaos of this administration. It’s now more than 160 preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders. American history has never seen anything like this because we’ve got a completely lawless executive branch that wants to take over all of the institutions of society. That’s not their role.

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[Autumn]

1. Yeah they did. Project 2025. This is exactly what fucking conservatism is.

Dems have always been allowed to use the holy fucking grail of bipartisanship to temper it but now the conservative have halted that gambit.

[lonely bird]

2. Yeah, gotta disagree with the congressman

This is precisely what they wanted.

They want mediocre white (mostly)men in charge. They want everyone they think is inferior kept in positions of inferiority. They are driven by so much fear, anxiety and anger over what they see as their world going away that they will and did do anything to try and stop it.

Conservatism has always been about resisting change although understanding that change is inevitable and thus would require adjusting to change. Reactionaryism, conservatism since Reagan although its seeds were planted long before, is about violence to devolve change back to an extreme illusion of what the world looked like and should always look like frozen in amber.

[Scrivener7]

3. I agree, but this is a smart message from Raskin.

It gives a way for those who voted for him to save face.

I hate giving them a way to save face, but I think the only way to kneecap trump is to turn pieces of his cult against him. And the only way to do that is to allow them to separate themselves from him.

It feels dirty, but I think it's how it has to be done.

[Autumn]

7. They don't get to save face. They showed their true face and now they own it.

Dems always clean them up and then they turn around and do their shit again.

[Scrivener7]

11. Yes, but for a short time and for our own purposes we should let them think they have.

[Marthe48]

4. Traitor felon offered poison food at his table

Everyone who came to his table knew the food was poison, but ate a plate of their favorite anyway.

[raging moderate]

5. Trump and his buddies are not conservative. They are REACTIONARY.

I remember reading a quote from President Eisenhower, back in the sixties. He was sure that the ultra-right-wing cultists would never take control of the USA, because they wanted to pull the US back to the nineteenth century. Or something like that. My mother was a Republican because her mother's ancestors had been in the original 19th-century Republican Party, founded by Abolitionists and advocates for Black people's rights. I will never forget her gradual shift to the Democratic Party, or the shocked look on her face, not long before she died, as she said, "I guess I am voting for all Democrats this time!" I was always a Democrat, because I watched on TV as they kicked out the racist Dixiecrats, and because of President Johnson's civil rights bill. These current right-wing Republican leaders have voiced the desire to take our country back to the era when children worked in exhausting, dangerous factory jobs and women (and others) stayed in "their places" and white male bullies ran the country. Trump has said that only stupid families failed to become rich in the old days. And he has recently advocated that we jump back into the late 19th century, before the social reforms. These people have reacted badly to the loss of oligarchy in our country. That is why the historians call them "reactionaries."

[Clouds Passing]

8. I remember when these reactionaries murdered our President, our Secretary of State

and our civil rights leaders

[twodogsbarking]

6. Bullshit, you knew you pieces of crap.

[andym]

9. Raskin is getting at something critical here: it's not just policies, it's how they are acting re: the law

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Trump and his Republican party are creating an authoritarian executive branch on steroids that is seizing power from the legislative and judicial branches and is attempting to cower American non-governmental institutions such as the free press, educational institutions and even free enterprise that have been the bulwark of American culture for centuries.

In the name of America First, Trump is being un-American in the extreme.

[republianmushroom]

10. I disagree with Rep. Raskin, many did know

what trump conservative was, he told them. They didn't believe him, they are starting to believe him now.
They are living and learning now.

[AlexSFCA]

12. it's literally what trump's supporters voted for

he was very transparent about 2.0 agenda, does exactly what he promised. Listen to some maga focus groups, they hate those who block trump’s agenda. We have a voter problem, but no one wants to admit it.

[hay rick]

13. What people "voted for."

What people say they voted for in polls is almost meaningless in my estimation. The responses are often plucked from a list or represent the last thing they heard from a friend or on tv. The real issue is what people will tolerate without taking action. If you ask people if they voted for the suspension of due process or habeas corpus and if they approve of a lawless administration they will either dispute the facts or say no. The Republicans that say no should not be expected to therefore stop voting Republican. Most of them are psychologically and morally disconnected from the consequences of their actions. That rupture is old news at this point.

[Karasu]

14. This IS the true face of modern conservatism. Has been for at LEAST a fucking decade, if not more.

The mask is off. Anyone who still considers themselves a Republican for whatever fucking reason--especially after 1/6/21, which should have been the end of it all--and is not an authoritarian is on the fringes of the party (not to mention divorced from reality and completely and utterly fucking irrelevant). Being "mainstream" has nothing to do with the severity of your views, only how common they are. "MAGA" is the mainstream in the Republican Party. Anyone who still doubts that after everything that's happened over the last 10 years has not been paying fucking attention.

That is the reason why the overwhelming majority of Republicans believed Biden didn't win in 2020. That is the reason why Trump wasn't kicked off the ballot in this last election cycle despite multiple courts acknowledging that he participated in an insurrection. His "brand" of conservatism is just that popular with them. Why? Because it is what they fucking want, what most of them have always wanted. And now they are getting to live the dream, regardless of whether or not the finer details of its execution are everything they imagined in their uninformed, reactionary, dumbass heads.

While I respect Raskin and I can see what he's trying to do (despite completely disagreeing with it), the time to make these kinds of distinctions has long passed. It's fucking 2025, and we all live under fascism now. The time for mealy-mouthed bullshit is over.