• Rep. Jamie Raskin Hires Psychologists to Help Democrats Cope With Trump

    From John Smyth@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 25 12:21:58 2025
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    TDS at the government level.
    These people have serious mental issues and shouldn't be leading a girl
    scout troop let alone the most powerful country on earth.

    'Rep. Jamie Raskin Hires Psychologists to Help Democrats Cope With
    Trump’s Return' -- Aims to Help Improve ‘Emotion Regulation’

    <https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/rep-jamie-raskin-hires-psychologists-help-democrats-cope/>

    'As Democrats are still reeling from their incredible defeat in the 2024 presidential election, Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland has hired
    shrinks to try and set things right.

    According to Punchbowl News, Raskin hosted a retreat for Democrats on
    the House Judiciary Committee where they hosted Jim Coan, a University
    of Virginia professor of psychology.

    Another speaker was Hal Movius, a consultant whose specializations
    include “negotiation,” “influence,” “emotion regulation,” “leadership”
    and “organizational development.”

    The report states:

    The purpose of the session, according to multiple attendees, was to
    counsel Democrats about how to approach conflict and effectively combat
    what Raskin described as “authoritarian styles of speech.”

    Another attendee said Judiciary Democrats were also advised to avoid
    devolving into partisan mud-slinging — a more common hallmark of the
    House Oversight Committee, which Raskin previously led as the top
    Democrat.

    “They’re social psychologists, and they were just talking about communication and authoritarian styles of speech in the Trump age,”
    Raskin told us when asked about the speakers.

    “We were talking about basically communication styles during the Trump era.”

    Raskin, a former constitutional law professor, hosted the summit weeks
    after he was chosen as the top Democrat serving on the House Judiciary Committee.

    The committee, which is chaired by MAGA Republican Jim Jordan, has led
    multiple investigations into Democratic crimes and corruption, including
    the Biden family’s corrupt business dealings, the weaponization of
    federal agencies for political purposes and a re-examination of the
    January 6th protests.

    Raskin, meanwhile, has a reputation as one of the most unhinged
    Democrats in Congress.

    Back in October, weeks before the election even took place, Raskin said
    he would not commit to certifying the 2024 election in the event of a
    Trump victory.

    Months before that, he also pledged to block Trump’s victory using the
    14th Amendment and create “civil war conditions” to prevent him from
    taking office.



    Sadly for Raskin, Donald Trump’s victory was so overwhelming that these grandiose ambitions never came to pass'

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