He converted more people to not eating meat than anybody I've ever met in my entire life. He was an anti-war activist, and he became a vegan and was a really strong animal rights person as well. He was very much a human rights activist.
He was somebody that everybody wanted to be around, and he had profound moral and political passions. He was he was a musician, a playwright and a stand-up comic. So many of his classmates just described him as the life of the party. He was in his second year at Harvard Law School when we lost him. We just got back from Cambridge, actually, where Harvard Law School had a memorial service for him. He was just tremendously exuberantly funny. 6, but also because of the powerful and emotional story that you tell about Tommy, who you describe as your North Star. I found it spellbinding both because the events of Jan. “Unthinkable ” reads like a love letter to your late son Tommy and a love letter to democracy. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Raskin tells his intensely personal and political story in his new book, “ Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. Since the summer, Raskin has been a member of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the Capitol. Speaker Nancy Pelosi then tapped the grieving Raskin to be lead manager in Trump’s second impeachment trial. Capitol, egged on by the defeated president. That’s when Trump supporters mounted a violent insurrection in the U.S. Seven days later - and just a day after burying his son - Raskin returned to Congress to cast his vote to certify Biden’s election. On December 31, 2020, Raskin’s only son, Tommy, a promising young student at Harvard Law School, took his own life after a long struggle with depression. Raskin and his Democratic colleagues in Congress anticipated that former President Donald Trump would try to subvert the results and try to derail Congress’s normally pro-forma certification of President Joe Biden’s election.īut Raskin was blindsided. Jamie Raskin was expecting trouble after the November 2020 presidential election. Listen below, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify to hear more. The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues with politicians, activists, artists, changemakers and citizens who are making a difference. Jamie Raskin, left, and his new book, "Unthinkable." Images courtesy of Harper Collins
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