\u201cHouse of Cards\u201d creator Beau Willimon believes that Donald Trump\u2019s presidency is a step back for America, but he\u2019s hopeful the country will move forward in the long run.
\u201cWe have always moved forward, slowly, with difficulty, with pain, with death,\u201d Willimon told TheWrap\u2019s Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman and Anna Palmer, co-author of Politco\u2019s Playbook daily newsletter. \u201cAnd we have had times where we have moved backwards. We saw it in Reconstruction. We saw it in the Jim Crow era after the 13th Amendment was passed.\u201d
\u201cThere are times we moved backward,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut we always end up in the long term moving forward, improving, involving, and perfecting our democracy. We\u2019ve moved backward right now\u2026 but in the long story that is America we will overcome that, we will move beyond that, and our country will be a better place.\u201d
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Willimon also said that among his chief concerns with the current state of affairs in this country is efforts by the right to gerrymander electoral districts in order to stay in power, citing things like the REDMAP Project, in which the GOP organized across the country to redraw districts state by state.
\u201cWe have a country in which there has been a systematic, concerted effort to game redistricting across the country,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you look at the huge disparity in terms of the way our votes count and the ways our votes are being suppressed and locked out, we do not have a representative republic in this country right now. And that\u2019s not just the Presidency, that\u2019s our Congress.\u201d
For Inauguration Day, the top of the W Hotel across from the White House was transformed into Politico\u2019s 2017 Inauguration Hub. They have welcomed a mix of political leaders, activists and respected business and cultural figures.
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Programming at the Hub will include a panel on the future of environmental policy \u2014 co-moderated by Waxman and Politico Editor John Harris \u2014 titled \u201cComing Together: The Environment and the Next Four Years,\u201d which will be live streamed at 10:30 a.m. PT\/1:30 p.m. ET.
Panel participants include Mike McKenna, president, MWR Strategies; Collin O\u2019Mara, CEO, National Wildlife Federation; and \u201cBefore the Flood\u201d director Fisher Stevens, an Oscar-winning documentarian, who is also an actor.
The Donald Trump inauguration will commence at approximately 11 a.m. ET.
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