Trump and the State of our Union

At this point, top Democrats are praying Trump really is suffering from dementia, because right now, he is so on target, so inspirational, so able to communicate his message and his vision, he is literally tearing the Democratic base into little pieces.

For a SOTU to run an hour and 20 minutes — and hold the audience, uplift the audience, bring tears into the eyes of an audience, a president must marshal something primal, something honest, something guttural that reaches people who don’t normally agree with that president — and last night Trump did all of that and more

His numbers were stratospheric, with 75% of Americans LIKING the speech, which was the overwhelmingly majority of Republicans, an absolute majority of Independents and about half the Democrats watching. This means he did both things he needed to last night, solidified his base and reached into the opposition camp and stole some more support.

Trump is on a roll, no doubt about it.

He touched on his victory list, but he did it in a way that wasn’t a brag, more of a continued sales effort, ISIS is destroyed, but we’re still chasing them; the tax plan is passed, but we still have a lot of work to do on the economy; the infrastructure bill will be $1.5 Trillion, but don’t worry, I’m gonna get state and corporate matching, so we really plan to spend twice that! This was great stuff because he wove in personal stories from people in the audience and the combination was masterful, here’s the Wall I want, and oh by the way, here’s the people whose children were slaughtered because we don’t have one. It made me cry and I don’t cry over politics generally.

Trump is mastering this presidency thing and mastering it quickly.

The Democrats thought Trump was a weakness for the Republicans (like they did with Reagan) and that assessment is backfiring badly, just like it did with Reagan. The Dims, under Obama, backed a stupid immigration policy and now are doubling down on that stupidity – at the exact moment more and more Americans are waking up to all the dangerous risks in the Democratic plan.

All the Democrats need to do — is read the name of the “Common Sense Coalition” a group of Senators that voted to keep the government running — while Schumer played drama queen — to understand their problem. It does not make Common Sense to allow drug dealers, criminals, immigrants from areas that send terrorists here — and people chosen randomly (not kidding) — to enter the United States and then bring a potentially unlimited number of potential terroristic relatives with them.

Trump is not a racist for pointing this out, just a man with common sense.

Indeed. If Obama had not tried out his disastrous attempt at allowing a flood of immigrants to flow from Sharia law countries into European and American cities, Trump would not have won on this point. But Obama did try, and the result was a catastrophe, that has crippled Europe and would cripple the US — if Trump had not reversed this trend and also explained to the American people — as he has done masterfully — why this reversal is necessary.

Trump will get his four immigration pillars and he will get them because the American people support him on this.

Many high-ranking Dems will be caught up in this FBI scandal and will fall.

The Democrats and the press have not faced this issue honestly, and now, as a result, they will experience this crucible of shame, while they are struggling to mount a mid term battle. I wrote a piece a while ago suggesting Trump personally loan the DNC enough money to keep running – just to make the contest competitive – and although the piece was satire, the truth is, the DNC is broke, has poor leadership, is out of touch with American voters – and will probably have $20 million in legal expenses soon, once their role in fixing a presidential election becomes fully exposed.

Nancy Pelosi does not look good either; she is their leader and her interview with Chris Cuomo on CNN yesterday was scary. I don’t want to speculate on her health, but something is clearly wrong, she was not following the thread of questions. She actually attacked Cuomo half way through the interview and was also sucking her teeth constantly, something she would normally — never do. She spaced out. Her powers of concentration appeared to be completely scattered during the interview. If she is drafting the narrative going forward, based on what I heard her tell Cuomo in this interview, the Dems are in deep, deep, do-do.

I not only think the Dems are in trouble, I think Schumer knows this and is trapped.

If he doesn’t fight, he looks like he is capitulating and if he does; he’s pushing extreme positions without broad support. Character assassination only goes so far now, because the media is no longer believed concerning Trump – this is a double trap for Schumer.

To make matters worse, Trump stole every talking point the Dems had lined up, right out from under their noses – during the SOTU. Drug pricing? Yesterday the Dems owned this plank, today, Trump does. One by one, he picks an idea out of the Overton Window buffet in front of him and turns the idea around to his advantage – and the Democrats seem helpless to stop him.

I repeat my prediction: Republicans pick up 6 Senate seats in November, and Trump gets a total of 8 since he will also replace two RINO’s, — giving Trump a near filibuster proof Senate after the mid-terms with just a little Dem support, which I predict will exist.

Trump could get to 60 outright in the midterms if either Joe Manchin or Heidi Heitkamp switch parties, which both of them SHOULD do. Last night will make it easier for them to do this since I suspect this SOTU played very well in West Virginia and North Dakota.

I also think the House majority will hold, although I predict they lose a few seats after all the dust settles.