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Want to share something that's been on my mind the past few days. Congressman Raskin and his wife wrote a beautiful and crushing tribute to their son who died over the holidays. One quote in particular stuck with me.
"[H]e quoted something that he loved which Father Daniel Berrigan said about Dorothy Day: ‘she lived as though the truth were true.’ Tommy said: ‘I wanted them to see that the truth is true.’"
It's what I was thinking about when I saw the failed insurrection and successful ransacking of the Capitol yesterday which, given the pipe bombs and molotov cocktails discovered, we're lucky is still standing.
It was on my mind when I saw Congress planning to adjourn, when I see absurd arguments about "moving forward" by not confronting the past. Or suggesting you can restore "trust" with performative entreaties to people who have been fed and who feed themselves lies and propaganda.
How do we protect the country over the next two weeks? How do we stop the next Trump? How do we create costs for lying and shamelessness in politics? How do we attack the supply of misinformation? How do we contend with the demand? How do we safeguard democracy?
And I feel like a good question to ask ourselves is, are we acting as though the truth is true? Are our leaders? It's simple and maybe silly and obvious to you. But it's been on my mind. And it's the good that can come from the bad of yesterday when the truth is so undeniable.
So I just wanted to say I'm grateful to the Raskins for writing this. And that I think it's worth reading to appreciate this person and to take a lesson from a tribute that must have been impossibly hard to share. https://repraskin.medium.com/statement-of-congressman-jamie-raskin-and-sarah-bloom-raskin-on-the-remarkable-life-of-tommy-raskin-f93b0bb5d184
