Different Republican standard-bearer, same old John Lewis

Published January 16, 2017 7:54pm ET



Everything changes come noon on Friday — except for Congressman John Lewis. The civil rights icon and Georgia Democrat has promised to boycott Donald Trump’s inauguration, and he’s already denied the legitimacy of the president-elect. But this is standard fare from Lewis.

When Senators Barrack Obama and John McCain squared off in 2008, Lewis compared the Arizona Republican to Alabama Democrat George Wallace, the same racist segregationist governor who turned a blind eye to the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing, which left four little girls dead.

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