While it was unsurprising to most Americans, the absence of President Donald Trump from the funeral of former Rep. John Lewis on Thursday was telling.<br />According to CNN, Trump's decision to pass was indicative of the rabidly polarized era of politics over which he presides.<br />Trump recently used a rollback of a federal anti-segregation housing rule to appeal to white suburbanites.<br />The tactic seems to have a direct line to the racist policies Lewis was seeking to overturn half a century ago.<br />Rather than working towards national unity, as Lewis did, Trump has used statues of Confederate generals as a rallying cry in his reelection bid.<br />The President's Twitter remembrance of the late television host Regis Philbin was nearly three times as long as his cursory tweet for Lewis.
