Thomas Paine helped start America. In the Trump era, he's under fire.

Thomas Paine helped start America. In the Trump era, he's under fire.

(RNS) — Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., was revving up a crowd of tens of thousands gathered in Philadelphia for the first major No Kings protest last June. His speech, like the demonstration itself, was focused primarily on pushback against President Donald Trump, whom critics such as Raskin likened to a would-be monarch. But after railing against the president, Raskin paused to focus on one of his favorite Founding Fathers: Thomas Paine, an English-…