Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola was recruited by fellow Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland to be part of a program he created called Democracy Summer. It is a program to recruit young Democrats and train them in the ways of the party and campaigning for Democrats, developing a young army, if you will, to be deployed across the nation.
Now, Raskin is planning to take the next step and overthrow the government if Donald Trump is elected president again. In a televised interview, he said he and colleagues will use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment against Trump, since the Supreme Court has not done so to his satisfaction.
“It will be up to us on Jan. 6, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified. Then it will be bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions,” he said.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment pertains to “Disqualification from Holding Office.” It says:
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
Raskin plans to prevent Trump from taking office and is ready to create “civil war conditions,” if he has to. He has been training youth across America to be his foot soldiers.
“Founded by Congressman Jamie Raskin, backed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and buoyed by thousands of supportive alumni across the country, Democracy Summer engages high school and college-aged young people in state-of-the-art tactics in voter registration, canvassing and digital political organizing. Moreover, through on-line seminars with leading historians, law professors, political organizers and union and elected leaders, it provides an intensive education in the historical struggle for democratic freedom and essential lessons for effective political leadership today,” the group’s website says.
The question is for Peltola: Was this part of the Democracy Summer training program that Peltola has been part of? Does Peltola support Raskin’s insurrection and plan to overthrow the government? And is she willing to use the same section of the Constitution to remove Raskin for his own already-declared intent to overthrow a duly elected president?
Defeating and unseating Trump has been a part of Raskin’s plan since he was elected to his federal seat in 2016, the same year Trump was elected.
“Elected to Congress the same night in November 2016 that Donald Trump won the presidency, Jamie went to work immediately to rally the Democrats locally and nationally and—as a key Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Oversight and Reform Committee, Rules Committee and Administration Committee—to oppose the lawlessness, corruption and extremism of the Trump Administration,” says his biographical review at Democracy Summer’s website.
With that as the basis for Democracy Summer, Mary Peltola has signed on to help Raskin with his ambitions, which were revealed in his interview above — overthrowing the next president. It’s now up to Peltola to decide which part she wants to play in Raskin’s Revolution.