The notion of "building bridges" with the Trump administration assumes that they are decent folks with whom one can work.....

Sadly, evidence is lacking for that premise....and I suspect the contrary view will be ever more evident as time passes, today's evisceration of the House ethics committee a case in point.

Rather....than building bridges in an ugly scene...I suspect that we are going to be called to defend the powerless....whether poor and life threateningly sick who have lost their health care, safety net social services and food and housing assistance OR immigrants facing deportation without legal counsel, or Muslims(or other religious or social entities) whose civil liberties are being trashed....OR , OR, OR.....

"Making nice" in Germany in the early 30s with the prevailing party didn't work out ......hope we have the character in 2017 to speak truth to power .......power that decimates civil liberties, and protections, and the poor.