He has to walk out in front of reporters tomorrow. It isn't going to be pretty.

There can be a big TV in the press room and they'll zoom the camera on his mouth for two-minutes hate.

and the white house webpage shows nothing (no surprise there)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings

Ideology needs fought with a different tactic.

I think the rift brought on by Trump is one, not of party, but of ideology. It's no longer the Liberals (for the people) vs. conservatives (for big money). Even moderate conservatives will tell you that Trump is not a representative of conservative values. He's a maverick who chose to run on the GOP ticket. And, he specifically wants to widen the rift, and cause all of us to fall. Education does play into that ideology gap, because those who are educated are more tolerant of differences in culture, as in "live and let live". Through education, the more you are exposed to, the more you understand others and their lives. Educated people are often also more traveled.

When my hometown lost its "lifestyle" (due to the oil crash in the 80's), all of us natives scattered, to find better jobs -- and the educated children from my town were not bringing that back home by 1990. They went away to college, and then didn't bring back their knowledge to the small town. Why would they? There were no good jobs there anymore. (Remember who was in office in the 1980's?)

I left for Colorado, land of opportunity. But when I came back to my hometown in Kansas in the late 90's, OMG ... it was a whole different place. The culture I had grown up with: one of always do better, always learn more, always give back -- had been over-run by lower educated, nearly backwards-thinking cretins. Where there had been the successful and bright were now displaced by the "country-fide", prejudiced hicks! They say, "you can never go home".... that was so true!

If we all, as Americans, do not come together to fight this disease that is trying to split us (to fail), the toxic ooze they emit is going to seep into the cracks between us, and they'll glory in the fact that they could do it! Trump is already using Putin's playbook. We have to (first) recognize and acknowledge this for what it is -- and then as the wiser, we have the tools to oust it from our country.

No matter the GOP blusters around, and says Democrats didn't connect with people. Poo-Paw, we can't just hash it over, and wring our hands. Trumpism is trying to sway all our thinking. Democrats and Conservatives together are going to need to tackle this Trumpism with a new set of rules. Past banter back-and-forth won't be what wins. Trump seized on the internal unrest brought on by Obama-haters (black President, bigot group) and saw a way to widen it. Currently, there is (maybe) 1/3 of the country in this hater mode. Bi-partisan efforts need to develop plans to stop it before the percentage grows. There is no time to sit around and discuss this issue.

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I remember the "Tractorcaides" forming in Springfield Colorado and block aiding the stores in 1979. I drove a friends tractor to Lubbock and we barricaded the Lubbock newspaper. We got what we wanted but that was all the good press the "striking farmers" got from the press.

I didn't realize how much politics were involved in it and how they were tearing down Carter. I have to admit, commodity prices were crap, below loan level. Good ole flat great plains with shrinking little towns where the ages are high. Lots of Medicare but they vote republican.

They are also running out of water. It used to be a good place to live.

Your are right, towns full of really greedy people.

used and nurtured the same voter base that helped someone like Trump rise to power and people like myself for decades tried to warn them about courting that voter base and yet they kept at it because gaining more power was more important than the country.

Josh Marshall
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Spicer said 2013 Inaugural metro use was 317k, lower than Trump's 420k. Actual 2013 number was 782k. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sean-spicer-assails-media-inauguration-crowd-size … ¯_(ツ _/¯
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Steve Kim ?@Fobwashed · 43m43 minutes ago
President Trump's hands are the "largest hands to ever exist, period." - Sean Spicer

https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha

while he served on the student government at Connecticut College and he was NOT happy. I love this quote from the DM piece:

Sean Spicer is Trump's press secretary. Richard Spencer is the white nationalist/neo-Nazi asshole who got punched in the face. I realise it's easy to get those confused.