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A majority of the house by & # 039; all the necessary means & # 039;
Elgin, Ill.
Ask Sean Casten about the sharp tone of his campaign in Congress, and he responds by going for the jugular. In a race in which the Democrats try to take the House, Mr. Casten has been accused by his opponent, the republican representative of the Republican Party Peter Roskam, of spraying "rhetorical gasoline" and "drowning Donald Trump" . Nonsense, answers the Democratic candidate.
"If you do not have a thick skin, I'm not sure why you're in politics," says Mr. Casten, after we get into a quiet corner during a welcome meeting at the office park. "What is offensive to Roskam is that I have had the temerity to tell the truth to power, he has voted 94% of the time with Trump, he has on his website that he is proud to work at Denny Hastert's desk. Pedophilia: If that bothers you, that's between him and his God. "
What what?
To make a backup: Mr. Casten refers to an old press release, 2011, on the official website of Mr. Roskam. He explained that Dennis Hastert, who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1999-2007, was going through a "historical desk" used by Illinois congressmen since the 1940s. Five years after bequeathing seniority, the Mr. Hastert admitted that he had sexually abused children as a fight coach in high school in the sixties and seventies. And this horrible crime is now reflected in Mr. Roskam. . . How exactly?
Welcome to the Sixth Congressional District of Illinois, where this year's political debate is peppered with casual references to Nazis, imbeciles and, yes, pedophiles. These suburbs of Chicago, which went to Hillary Clinton by 7 points in 2016, are an excellent picking opportunity for Democrats. The district, shaped like a cocktail shrimp, arches between the O'Hare Airport and the particle accelerator in Fermilab. Half of the resident adults went to school, a fifth has a graduate degree, and the average family earns $ 99,000.
But a journalist who parachutes into the Sixth District, hoping to write about fiscal policy or medical attention, soon ends up thinking strange questions: is civility simply outdated in 2018, the equivalent of carrying a rifle to a shooting? Even in the wooded suburbs of the Midwest, which are full of educated women who fled the Republican Party under Donald Trump?
Mr. Roskam, whose most severe censure is occasionally calling his opponent "obtuse", does not think so. "Mothers are primarily the guardians of civil discourse," he tells me in a small Dunkin 'Donuts in Elk Grove Village. "They are not impressed with the president, who tweets the way he does it." And they're not impressed by my opponent, who tweets the way the tweets. "One minute later, he adds:" What I'm communicating to you is: "I'm not going to embarrass you like that."
But in these intoxicating days, who is ashamed? On Tuesday the president of the United States, writing about
he insulted a stripper, who claims to have had an affair with him and then sued him unsuccessfully for defamation, calling her "Horseface". The Democrats, outraged by Mr. Trump, the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and much more, have shouted at Republican Party officials Outside the restaurants and pickets of their front gardens. Representative Maxine Waters, whose Democratic electorate near Los Angeles gave Mrs. Clinton 78% of her vote, made headlines a few months ago by expressly endorsing such tactics.
What makes Mr. Casten's fierce message remarkable is that he is trying to win a swing district. Most politicians, as election day approaches, dilute their rhetoric to attract independent voters. Mr. Casten continues to serve 100-degree whiskey. When the Trump government this summer was separating families from illegal aliens, he said in a debate at the Chicago Tribune that "we are literally kidnapping babies on the border." In the suburb Daily Herald last month, he said that wealth inequality is, historically speaking, "dangerously close to the levels that precede the revolutions." The same day he repeated a theory of conspiracy that a lawyer, who is said to be of Mexican and Jewish descent, was "showing signs of white power behind the hearings of Brett Kavanaugh."
A newcomer to politics, Mr. Casten presents himself as a narrator of the truth in an era of alternative facts. He spent his career fighting climate change while making a profit by capturing wasted energy in factories or turning coal services into natural gas. He says he voted for George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole, but characterizes the Republican Party today as an accomplice in the emergence of a demagogue. "This is not partisan," he tells a crowd of about 100 in Elgin, "to call misogyny, to call racism, to draw attention to the fact that there was a real member of the Hungarian Nazi Party in the White House. "(Mr. Casten refers to Sebastian Gorka, a former adviser to Trump, who deny having Nazi connections or anti-Semitic views.
Even beyond Mr. Trump, the two contenders of the Sixth District do not agree much. Mr. Roskam, a fairly conventional Republican, has voted to repeal and replace ObamaCare. He describes himself as pro-life. He helped draft the tax reform last year and says it is working, "without a doubt". He cites a visit to a manufacturer in Downers Grove, during which his hosts pointed out $ 4 million in new equipment: "They said the only reason they bought it. The year was due to the tax reform: the total expense."
The congressman describes the performance of the president as "mediocre". After the solicited press conference of Helsinki with Vladimir Putin, Mr. Roskam called it "an affront to American democracy". He opposed withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement and says "the smartest". the movement was: stay, stay at the table, have more influence. " In principle, he thinks that Congress should reclaim the authority over trade and the rates it has delegated to the president.
Mr. Casten, in contrast, wants to repeal the tax law completely. "It has been a massive blessing for the owners of the capital," he says. "Dividends went up, share repurchases went up, but average salary growth actually went down." Instead, he attributes to President Obama low unemployment and other optimistic indicators: "We just continue on the same trend line." Mr. Casten believes that universal Health care, the expansion of ObamaCare with a "public option", could save the US. UU maybe $ 1 trillion a year.
He sees abortion "as a medical procedure, like gallbladder surgery," he explained in a July debate. Therefore, he has no qualms about spending taxpayers' money on it. Most of these funds are currently blocked by the Hyde Amendment, named after the predecessor of Mr. Roskam's Sixth District, Representative Henry Hyde. "There is absolutely no evidence that reducing access to abortion reduces the incidence of abortion," says Casten. "So all it does is put women's lives at risk, it's a stupid policy, and I would love, as the heir of Henry Hyde's seat, to be able to cast the deciding vote to revoke it."
Finally, he paints Mr. Roskam as a villain for Mr. Trump. "I think he has an obligation, if he has the pulpit, to say that we have a demagogue in the White House," says Mr. Casten, "and that throughout history there have been horrible demagogues who have used the exact same the playbook that Trump is using. "He presents the question of challenging Mr. Trump in pragmatic terms:" I can say with absolute certainty that every day that he is in office is a danger to the country and to the world, "he says. Mr. Casten, but dismissing a president requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate: "I think there is a real danger in having a political trial if it is not dismissed, because now the situation has worsened."
In the end, it is difficult to know how much to do with Mr. Casten's rhetoric. Sometimes, your comments seem to be a candidate's mistakes for the first time. This summer, Washington Free Beacon published an audio of him and opined that "Trump and Osama bin Laden have a tremendous amount in common, because both have discovered how to use the bully pulpit to activate marginalized youth." He apologized for the comparison.
Other times, the provocations seem intentional. In December, commenting on the news that the Republican National Committee had reestablished support for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, Mr. Casten tweeted that the Republican Party "is now officially the Pedophilia Party." Almost a year later, after Mr. Roskam mentioned that tweet more than once in public debates, still has not been eliminated. Why not?
Back in Elgin, as the interview concludes, I thank Mr. Casten for his time and we headed towards the dessert table. As we walk, I dismiss what looks like a disposable question. In February he was asked to name "one of the current leaders who inspires you the most", Mr. Casten selected Dan Savage, a sex columnist What motivated that choice? "He has this combination," Mr. Casten explains, "of utterly righteous indignation, and an incredible sense of humor." He cites a contest Mr. Savage held in 2003 to name a graphic sex term after the then Sen. Rick Santorum The wild neologism later made headlines in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election. While Mr. Santorum was looking for the Republican nomination, the most important Google search result for his name was this explicit definition.
Mr. Casten then offers another story. In the 1980s, he says, an activist was trying to get the mayor of New York, Ed Koch, to take a firm stance on the AIDS crisis. Koch, who always diverted the rumors that he was gay, continued to repress himself. So the activist, as told by Mr. Casten, played hard: "Finally, he went to Koch and said:" Here is the agreement. Tomorrow I'll tell the Daily News that I had sex with you in a bathhouse last night, unless you do something about this AIDS crisis, because my damn friends are dying. "
The result? "Koch took a step forward," recalls Casten, laughing. "And sometimes the world needs that, right? I'm not saying it's necessarily me." But sometimes, he believes, the Savages are on the right side of the story: "There are points where people who are willing to go beyond the rules of speech have an advantage, if nobody is willing to do it. And sometimes you need people to tell you, "You know what, I'll find you there in that world, I'll bring you back and use all the necessary means."
Mr. Peterson is a member of the editorial committee of the magazine.
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