Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address was by every meaningful measure a huge success for the president, with Trump more presidential and unifying than he’s ever been and polls showing overwhelming approval from viewers, including Independents, 72% of whom loved it. Then there’s the evidence from the left-leaning media, who really had to work hard to figure out how to spin the speech negatively.
While the night was a smashing success for Trump, it was also a crashing train wreck for Democrats, who made the politically disastrous decision to sit on their hands for basically all of it. The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro describes the Democrats’ bad behavior this way (formatting adjusted):
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