Marco Rubio pays tribute to the late John Lewis by tweeting out picture of the late Elijah Cummings

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You know how it is: A prominent civil rights movement leader-turned-congressperson—one you happen to be on the opposite side of the political divide from—dies, and now it’s time to do the “dignified statesperson” thing by sticking a picture of the two of you engaging in some good, old-fashioned bipartisan conversation on social media. It’s a quick, cheap, hideously transparent way to score a few “dignity of the office” points, and all you have to do to pull it off is not do something enormously boneheaded in the process—like, say, accidentally tweeting out a picture of yourself with a different Black civil rights advocate-turned-congressperson, instead of the one who just died.