Trump’s tweets prompt Democratic representatives to boycott inauguration

Political polarization has only grown deeper, and shows no sign of abating.

Expectations for Trump’s presidency are closely linked with partisanship and ideology.

The situation has gone beyond the point of usual nasty partisanship.

The boycott of Trump’s presidential inauguration by more than 60 House Democrats has added to the dissonance. Outside of Washington, they control more than two-thirds of the partisan state legislators, 33 governorships, and in Florida and 24 other states hold both the legislature and governor’s mansion.

This isn’t the first time individual members of Congress whose party has lost the White House have skipped an inauguration. And more, because of the meaning Democrats have given the boycott. He is a diehard Democrat and was just shattered by Trump’s victory.

Rep. John Lewis, a longtime civil rights activist, helped organize the famous march over the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma and was beaten while taking part in the long-ago protest.

Democrats need to keep in mind how Republicans treated President Obama’s agenda after his first inauguration. Undeterred, CNN continues to double down on Trump bashing.

President-elect Donald Trump arrives during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

Trump’s cyber comments on Lewis prompted U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, Alabama’s lone Democrat in Congress and its only black representative there, to say she would not attend the inauguration. A lot of them attended the second inauguration of President Obama with me.

“We differ in opinions, but what you have to do in a democracy – which makes the country stronger – is you find a way to work together”, Lawson said. Appearing on CNN recently, black Democrat professor Marc Lamont Hill called blacks who met with Trump “a bunch of mediocre negroes being dragged in front of TV as a photo-op for Donald Trump’s exploitative campaign against black people”.

At the same time, Schumer said he respects the decision by others to boycott. “I disagree with what @repjohnlewis said”, Axelrod tweeted Saturday.

Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Tex., reflected that view when he wrote that he chose to pass on the ceremony because he believes Trump “has shown an utter lack of respect for so many Americans”. In addition to fake news, maybe there apparently are FAKE congressmen. Yesterday, Rep. Brendan Boyle announced in a Facebook post that he will also join the boycott. Therefore, Lewis said, Trump is not “a legitimate president”. His inaugural address is a prime chance for him to try to reset his image and bind the wounds of a bitter election.

We want to hear from you. Bush wrote, speaking for himself and his wife, Barbara. “I have an obligation to the people to speak to things that I don’t think are going in the right direction”.

“I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected”. Trump promised during the campaign to reverse many of Obama’s executive orders and restore some from the George W. Bush days that Obama scrapped. This compares to 75 percent for Barack Obama in 2009, 65 percent for George W. Bush in 2001 and 67 percent for Bill Clinton in 1993.

Still, the public is not hopeful. With the Supreme Court tilting to GOP control, as well, they stand to shape America for generations to come. And yet numerous same voters who held that view voted for Trump anyway. Democratic pollster Mark Mellman doesn’t rule it out.

This leads me to the contentious Russian Federation situation, which feels like a plotline that’s fallen out of an alternate universe.

West Virginia Democratic Sen.

Mr. Lewis says that this new POTUS is not going to be his president.