Call your democratic senators and congresspeople and demand they don't go to Trump's inauguration. [View all]

John Lewis is right in that Trump is not a legitimate President. Trump worked with Russia and cheated
by using "cross check" to steal the White House he should not be normalized.


From Paul Kruagman's NY Times article .... Standing up against Trump is Patriotic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/opinion/with-all-due-disrespect.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

With All Due Respect.

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Now Mr. Lewis says that he won’t attend the inauguration of Donald Trump, whom he regards as an illegitimate president.

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By any reasonable standard, the 2016 election was deeply tainted. It wasn’t just the effects of Russian intervention on Mr. Trump’s behalf; Hillary Clinton would almost surely have won if the F.B.I. hadn’t conveyed the false impression that it had damaging new information about her, just days before the vote. This was grotesque, delegitimizing malfeasance, especially in contrast with the agency’s refusal to discuss the Russia connection.

Was there even more to it? Did the Trump campaign actively coordinate with a foreign power? Did a cabal within the F.B.I. deliberately slow-walk investigations into that possibility? Are the lurid tales about adventures in Moscow true? We don’t know, although Mr. Trump’s creepy obsequiousness to Vladimir Putin makes it hard to dismiss these allegations. Even given what we do know, however, no previous U.S. president-elect has had less right to the title. So why shouldn’t we question his legitimacy?

And talking frankly about how Mr. Trump gained power isn’t just about truth-telling. It may also help to limit that power.