Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780063209794

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Publication Date: 01-03-2023

Pages: 448

Product Dimensions: 7.80(w) x 5.20(h) x 1.20(d)

Congressman Jamie Raskin has proudly represented Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017. Prior to his time in Congress, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland and the Senate Majority Whip. He was also a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law for more than 25 years. He has authored several books, including the Washington Post bestseller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People and the highly acclaimed We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About America’s Students. Congressman Raskin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and a former Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He and his wife Sarah live in Takoma Park.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Prologue: Democracy Winter 1

Part I 35

Chapter 1 Democracy Summer 37

Chapter 2 A Sea of Troubles 65

Chapter 3 The Trolley Problem 95

Part II 107

Chapter 4 "There Is a North" 109

Chapter 5 Complete the Count 141

Chapter 6 Midnight Meditations and Onwellian Preparations 165

Chapter 7 "This Is About the Future of Democracy" 183

Chapter 8 An All-American Defense of Democracy 217

Chapter 9 Reverse Uno 255

Chapter 10 Writing Trump 275

Part III 289

Chapter 11 Violence v. Democracy: The January Exception 291

Chapter 12 Is This America? Trump on Trial 319

Chapter 13 Spaghetti on the Wall 357

Chapter 14 Witnesses to Insurrection 371

Epilogue 399

Acknowledgments 425