They can put a fox in charge of every hen house-they can put the Joker, the Riddler, and the Penguin in charge of Gotham City-but we are still here, and we’re not going anywhere.

They can try to dismantle the EPA, but we are still here. They can put Goldman Sachs back in charge of the Treasury Department, but we are still here. But Raskin elaborated on it, even working in a Batman metaphor: The “we’re still here” message echoed Bill Maher’s defiant theme after the election-a slogan HBO is now selling on baseball caps. A progressive firebrand and former majority whip in the state Senate, Raskin established a record as an effective liberal lawmaker in Maryland he was instrumental to accomplishing his state’s repeal of the death penalty and its passage of marriage equality. Raskin represented the suburb for nearly decade before winning this year’s most expensive congressional primary to replace Senator-elect Chris Van Hollen in the House of Representatives. The curly-haired 53-year-old representative-elect is already a household name in Silver Spring. “The resistance begins right here and the revival begins tonight,” said Representative-elect Jamie Raskin, whipping up the crowd at a rally he called “the first true-blue, overflow Democratic revival meeting of 2016.” suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland, a vibrant new left-wing voice in the House made himself heard-with exactly the message that Democrats across the country sorely need. On Wednesday, House Democrats doubled down on the same old, same old, voting for Nancy Pelosi and a leadership team with an average age of 76-a group that, for all its virtues, doesn’t exactly offer a fresh message to inspire the left.

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