the big washington celebration today of the big beautiful political power of doing nothing, of doing nothing, of stopping something from getting built. these are the two tracks in which people are expressing their political will right now in the united states. when will these two parts of american politics stop running parallel to one another and start either running in conflict or at least talking to each other? or are they already? joining us now is melissa harris perry, professor of political science at tulane university and an msnbc contributor. melissa, thanks for being here tonight. >> yep. absolutely. good to be here. >> do we have totally separate political tracks in this country right now, the sort of governing and electoral politics track and what's happening in the streets, or do you see these things speaking to each other yet? >> well, they are. and it's all these bridges, right? as you were introing and thinking about bridges, i keep thinking about the fact that it's the edmund petis bridge which is the moment, the turning point moment in the civil rights movement where finally you get a majority of the country on the
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