Oh, where to even start with this one? Representative Jamie Raskin, bless his pearl-clutching heart, is now threatening foreign leaders who dare to work with President Trump—yes, the same Trump that half of America is pretty eager to see back in the White House come 2025. Apparently, extending cooperation on immigration enforcement is now considered a betrayal of democracy. Who knew?
According to Raskin, foreign leaders like El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele—who’s actually doing something about gang violence in his country, mind you—should be “on notice” because Democrats are “coming back to power,” and when they do, they’ll remember who got a little too cozy with Trump. That’s right. Forget diplomacy, mutual interests, or actual results. This is junior high politics: you were friends with him, so now you’re dead to us.
Let’s take a minute to appreciate the irony here. Raskin and his buddies on the left have spent years lecturing the world about democracy, norms, and respecting institutions. But now he’s literally suggesting a future U.S. government retaliate against other sovereign nations for cooperating with a sitting American president. And not just any president—one who might, oh I don’t know, be reelected by the American people. What happened to respecting voters’ choices?
Even better, he throws around the phrase “authoritarianism” while openly advocating that Democrats should punish foreign countries who don’t play ball with their domestic political preferences. It’s almost adorable how self-unaware this is. Nayib Bukele, for all the media’s complaints about his “strongman” tactics, has managed to clean up his country’s streets, slash gang activity, and take real action on crime—something our own liberal cities can’t seem to figure out. But Raskin wants to pull U.S. aid and blacklist Bukele from polite company because he dared to cooperate with Trump’s immigration policy.
Jamie Raskin: “When we come back to power — and we will — are not going to look kindly upon people who facilitated authoritarianism in our country.”
Yes, that totally sounds like a non-authoritarian position. pic.twitter.com/u7Ez26rnyV
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 19, 2025
And let’s talk about that policy for a second. Trump has been using the Alien Enemies Act, which has been on the books since 1798, to deport gang-affiliated illegal immigrants—people with ties to groups like MS-13—back to El Salvador. That’s apparently an affront to democracy now, too. Imagine the gall of using wartime executive powers to protect Americans from violent criminals. The horror.
Of course, Raskin, ever the drama teacher in a law professor’s clothing, warns that we’re teetering on the edge of “complete dictatorship.” And his solution? A full-blown “transnational Democrat solidarity” movement to push back against “fascist chaos.” Because nothing says anti-authoritarianism like an unelected political class coordinating across borders to suppress the policies of an elected president.
What Raskin really seems upset about is that Trump is playing hardball, getting results, and not waiting for a permission slip from the D.C. cocktail circuit. Bukele isn’t pretending that criminals are misunderstood victims. He’s building prisons, locking them up, and cleaning house. Meanwhile, Raskin’s worried that treating MS-13 thugs harshly might hurt someone’s feelings in Brussels.
🚨Radical Jamie Raskin is now issuing threats to @nayibbukele and other world leaders for supporting the Trump admin:
“President Bukele…and other autocrats of the world have to understand the Trump administration is not going to last forever.”
“We will remember who stood up… pic.twitter.com/clb12cQwUX
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 21, 2025
And of course, it wouldn’t be a Raskin interview without a Hunter Biden deflection or a bizarre musing about whether Trump should be shipped off to a foreign prison. That’s right—he’s seriously floating the idea of exporting a former president to another country’s prison system, like this is some banana republic. You know, the same thing they accuse Trump of turning us into. Make it make sense.
Raskin’s tantrum isn’t really about Bukele or deportations. It’s about control. The left spent four years feeling powerless under Trump, and now they’re threatening foreign leaders to make sure that next time, no one steps out of line. They’re not protecting democracy—they’re redefining it to mean “do exactly what we say, or else.”
And that, friends, is the very thing they claim to be fighting against.
