“John answered brutal violence with courageous hope,” former president George W. Bush said in a statement. “Through his biography and his own charm, Lewis cast the type of long shadow that every president — until Trump — felt comfortable sitting under,” wrote Washington Post reporter Paul Kane. “Everyone that I have spoken with is horrified and disgusted.”)Trump and Pompeo don’t seem to be championing the same America that Lewis did. “It should be the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2020,” Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “That’s the way to do it. “Lewis lived, fought and triumphed by the words of Frederick Douglass: ‘Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Source: Washington Post July 20, 2020 04:02 UTC