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RASKIN: “Well, I think Governor Pritzker was speaking for states and cities across the country. You know, nobody wants a military invasion. I think Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and Trump’s handlers thought that he would conduct some kind of Mussolini-style military March across the country, subduing all the local populations, but it’s completely backfiring on them because it’s really unifying all of the local communities against Trump and against this outrageous authoritarianism. They tried to do it in California. It mobilized, really, not just L.A., but the entire state against them. And now California is gerrymandering back at the extreme gerrymandering in Texas. They try to do it in D.C., it unified their mayor and council and their local attorney general, and people are now more emphatic about fighting for statehood so they won’t be subject to this kind of colonial subjection in the future. And it clearly unified all of those public officials in Chicago, throughout Illinois.”