That State of the Union Address combined all the best and all the worst features of a Democratic President.
Led by Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats rose to applaud and cheer the ludicrous fantasist Juan Guaidó, just as they would have done under the Clintons, or Barack Obama, or Joe Biden, or Peter Buttigieg, or Mike Bloomberg, or John Kerry. Several reacted in the same way to the murder of General Soleimani, who had been replaced immediately.
No one seemed to question Donald Trump's suggestion that Soleimani was the worst director of terrorism in the Middle East, and responsible for the deaths of the most Americans. Of Saudi Arabia, let no man speak. Again, just as under the Clintons, or Barack Obama, or Joe Biden, or Pete Buttigieg, or Mike Bloomberg, or John Kerry.
But then, the Republicans all but wet themselves over policies and rhetoric that would have incited them to riot if any of those had articulated them: enormous infrastructure projects, a hugely expanded manufacturing sector, trade deals approved by the unions, significant intervention in healthcare, protecting Medicare and Social Security to the death, paid family leave, going back to the Moon and then on to Mars, planting one trillion trees, "We are working to finally end America's longest war and bring our troops back home," and the following:
"From the Pilgrims to our Founders, from the soldiers at Valley Forge to the marchers at Selma, and from President Lincoln to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Americans have always rejected limits on our children's future."
Hours from now, people who would have walked out of a Democrat's State of the Union Address for that "Dr." alone will vote to acquit Trump at his impeachment trial. And months from now, people with Confederate flags on their porches will be among those who vote to reelect him. But, of course, they will not be the only such voters.
Trump may or may not be stable. He may or may not be many things. But he is a genius.
No one seemed to question Donald Trump's suggestion that Soleimani was the worst director of terrorism in the Middle East, and responsible for the deaths of the most Americans. Of Saudi Arabia, let no man speak. Again, just as under the Clintons, or Barack Obama, or Joe Biden, or Pete Buttigieg, or Mike Bloomberg, or John Kerry.
But then, the Republicans all but wet themselves over policies and rhetoric that would have incited them to riot if any of those had articulated them: enormous infrastructure projects, a hugely expanded manufacturing sector, trade deals approved by the unions, significant intervention in healthcare, protecting Medicare and Social Security to the death, paid family leave, going back to the Moon and then on to Mars, planting one trillion trees, "We are working to finally end America's longest war and bring our troops back home," and the following:
"From the Pilgrims to our Founders, from the soldiers at Valley Forge to the marchers at Selma, and from President Lincoln to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Americans have always rejected limits on our children's future."
Hours from now, people who would have walked out of a Democrat's State of the Union Address for that "Dr." alone will vote to acquit Trump at his impeachment trial. And months from now, people with Confederate flags on their porches will be among those who vote to reelect him. But, of course, they will not be the only such voters.
Trump may or may not be stable. He may or may not be many things. But he is a genius.
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