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The Longest Day for Trump’s Adversaries

LANCE MORROW FEBRUARY 06, 2019

Concentration-camp survivor Joshua Kaufman and World War II veteran Herman Zeitchik at the State of the Union address, Feb. 5.Photo: EPA/Shutterstock

Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was a masterpiece—for his purposes. Two chaotic years into his term, Mr. Trump appeared presidential for seemingly the first time and dramatically advanced his chances for re-election in 2020.

I am speaking of perceptions—of how the unusual Mr. Trump plays in the public mind. To call the speech a masterpiece will strike his enemies as preposterous. On the other hand, progressives are sometimes unreliable judges of the country’s moods. Think of November 2016.

On Tuesday Mr. Trump enlarged the public’s idea of himself and his presidency, and in proportion diminished his enemies. That was his most effective stroke on Tuesday night: to make the left seem to be lost in irrelevant obsessions and guilty of misinterpreting—falsifying—America and its values.

Join us on March 4 as WSJ Opinion’s Paul Gigot leads a “State of TV News” panel discussion including Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo, CBS’s Christy Tanner and “Network” actor Tony Goldwyn. Included in your admission to the event is a ticket to see “Network” on Broadway at a subsequent date.

He redrew the battleground, leading the discussion abruptly away from progressives’ preoccupations with race and sex. He redefined himself in a more civilized light and sought to lend credibility and bipartisanship to his “Make America Great Again” theme by evoking American history and summoning the better angels. He fetched back to the 20th century’s binary moral perspectives, to the victorious fight against Nazi Germany and to the Cold War against communism.

The speech sought to annul, or at least soften, the left’s radical critique of American history, which has been the theme of elites since the 1960s, and to define Mr. Trump not as a chief of yahoos but a leader of a thoughtful, broadly respectable patriotism. It’s wishful thinking to hope that the speech might help to break the cycle of mutual contempt that has so demoralized the country.

The web has teemed for the past few years with comparisons of Mr. Trump to Hitler, warnings that Trumpism was the start of a new Reich. Mr. Trump installed two Jewish guests in the House gallery—Herman Zeitchik, who went ashore at Normandy in 1944, and Joshua Kaufman, whom Mr. Zeitchik helped liberate from Dachau the following year. The television picture of those two old Jewish men might have come from the epilogue to “Schindler’s List.” Mr. Trump beamed upon them from the podium as if, like Prospero, he had conjured this sweet denouement out of thin air.

The president twice mentioned the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, and he proudly took credit for moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. If Hitler was history’s supreme anti-Semite, Mr. Trump did a fair job of presenting himself as the opposite.

The president played a sly game of trapping his antagonists into applauding when they would have wished to sit on their hands or jeer. The white-clad vestal brigade of new Democratic congresswomen, including that one from Michigan who’d proclaimed her intention to “impeach the m—f—,” were seen turning to one another in confusion and trying to decide whether they would look worse applauding or sitting still.

Mr. Trump manipulated the theatrics inherent in the State of the Union, including the TV cameras’ restless and vigilant reaction shots, to his advantage. As he promised that America would never become a socialist country, the camera focused on the glowering self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, who looked like a grumpy old man out of Dostoevsky.

Mr. Trump turned things upside down. Portrayed by the left as a lawless president, he insisted on the rule of law, especially regarding immigration. Condemned as a racist, he defused the issue, to a degree, by embracing prisoners’ rights and condemning discrimination in the justice system.

The speech was an eccentric symphony of interwoven themes by which Mr. Trump moved to relegitimize his presidency, associating it with the grand sweep of American history and American values.

He appealed for a closer reading of the country’s terms and conditions, as if to insist that this is not exactly “a nation of immigrants,” and still less a nation of illegal immigrants. It is a nation of citizens who are former aliens or descendants of immigrants—who came to America legally and learned the language of the country, in which the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Gettysburg Address and Emancipation Proclamation are written. It is a nation of immigrants who have been expected to embrace American civic responsibility as a condition of American freedom.

Metaphysically, the American language is money—the shared idiom, the common denominator, the national theme and genius that overrides all others. Mr. Trump, a man of money, advanced his strongest argument early on in his speech, when he conjured the flourishing state of the economy, a revival (a religious term as well as an economic one) that carries with it the most reliable possibilities of American hope, unity and inclusion. Immigrants are drawn, first of all, by the promise of American money—that is, the freedom to seek it. Freedom and money are the keys to everything.

Mr. Trump said as much. It was his premise. He may be a spectacular oddity in American politics, but he was entirely traditional as he made the essential, paradoxical connection between American money and American virtue—the linkage of opportunity, freedom and possibility.

Mr. Morrow, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a former essayist for Time.

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If they agree to it, then that's all the time he should get.  I saw he tried to do the same with Sheila Jackson Lee and she wanted her time restored.  If Congress is going to going to be a circus then they should be treated as such the bunch of clowns.  

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28 minutes ago, JETT said:

Dont even get me started about investigating someone 

It was on 75 counts of abuse that even the ACLU was upset about, because they were abusing citizens rights under the Patriot Act.  Yet, you're okay with that ??  You want to act like Republicans are Nazi's, but who acts like them the left.  

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1 hour ago, Greezychef said:

And then this today. 

 

 

 

Of course there were names mentioned, but has AG Matthew Whitaker points out that they investigate crimes not individuals.  To name them in this hearing would make those that are innocent vulnerable to possible scrutiny which they do not deserve.  He is protecting their rights, unless a crime has been committed. In America today, many are found guilty due to publications of their names that are associated with crimes of this nature.  As in the Mueller investigation Trump has already been found guilty numerous times in public opinion based on that.  Every time an article is published the left wing media acts out in celebration with "We got him, We got him".  We'll, where are the charges ?  If the Mueller investigation had enough evidence to present to Congress to impeach President Trump it would have already been done.  They're looking for a needle in a haystack in hopes to find something, anything and all they have is indictments for perjury ?  If what I said in public was scrutinized to such a degree I could be charged for perjury if it was under oath.  Sometimes, we mix things up in our brains months are years after they occur unless we can have our memories refreshed.  Heck several years ago I mixed up calling Pete Willis by calling him Peter Tom Willis.   It happens.  Pete Willis was a guitarist for Def Leppard and Peter Tom Willis was the quarterback for FSU back in the day.  Some times we have what I want to call brain toots.  

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:rofl:   HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   :rofl:

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Senate has uncovered NO DIRECT EVIDENCE of conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia
"We were never going to find a contract signed in blood saying, 'Hey Vlad, we're going to collude,'" one Democratic aide said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-has-uncovered-no-direct-evidence-conspiracy-between-trump-campaign-n970536

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Even though this article is still dripping with liberal Dem media spin and backpedaling and a pathetic attempt to direct the narrative, the facts remain: they blew it. They never thought she would lose, and the "muh Russia" was pure invention. 

Congratulations on winning reelection, Mr. President. 
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For two years all we've heard has been Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! Trump, Russia, possible collusion! 

Welp.......now here we are, two years in and millions of tax dollars later, and what's the big BIG BIG payoff for all this?

Trump.........uhhhhh..........Russia........uhhh..........no direct evidence of   COLLUSION! 

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3 minutes ago, REX said:

There never was a "crime" to investigate ... the special council was appointed to find a supposed non existing crime.  It's exactly what President Trump calls it ... a "witch hunt" .... it's not suppose to work that way .... the Mueller "investigation" is the "insurance policy" Strzok was referring to get rid of Trump ... the new AG Barr needs to investigate the phony Mueller hoax NOW!!! ....

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Cohen is an admitted and convicted liar.  He was also disbarred recently.  He is just trying to lie again to embellish himself and to try and make the President look bad.  He could also be charged and convicted for breaking attorney client privilege  ...

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1 minute ago, JETT said:

Cohen is an admitted liar and will serve his sentence, can we say the same about trump? What benefit does cohen get from lying? None...

Trump lies so much its ridiculous, and he blinds you folks by taking your mind off of it by telling you our country is perfect now get real... trump hasn't done nothing for me or my family... trump is a loser and soon to be an admitted liar and will serve his time soon as hes out of office 

You are a brainwashed loon ... only a CNN/LSDMSNBC watching goober headed moron believes the :BS: you are spewing ...

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44 minutes ago, JETT said:

No where have I found anyone loyal on here to Clinton, if Obama committed such crimes and lies as trump we would be at war.... theres about 7 ####### on here who totes each others nuts around... I see wrong as wrong, Cohen's going to jail for his crimes... trump should be his cell buddy

I wasn’t talking about just SDC posters; I was talking about the Milllions of voters who turned a blind eye to the deleted e-mails, the personal e-mail account that was hacked, AND most importantly, those who support her in spite of the Fact that Chris Stevens & others were Murdered when She didn’t send help to them.

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  • Mr. P changed the title to 🕵️ The Deep State coup to overthrow Trump

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