Congressional Democrats wore their white-hot fury to the State of the Union

And by the end of President Trump’s speech, that conviviality, that decorum had been shredded.Maybe they didn’t “hate” anyone, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has said she does not. She did not seem to care.The women of the House Democratic caucus had pulled out their white suits for the speech. There are the Democrats — a klatch of women in white, black legislators in African stoles, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with her colorful headwrap swirling high. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted that she would not attend because she was fed up: “I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump’s lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution. None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it.” After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump’s lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution.None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it.Consequently, I will not be attending the State of the Union.Her colleague Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) skipped the speech, too.