There’s No Pivot to the Economy |
The State of the Union address last night was long on spectacle, and long, period. Political history will little note nor long remember what Donald Trump said, but he did get some good visuals that may help fire up his demoralized troops a bit ahead of the midterms. For the wider public, however, even a speech of record long-windedness was never likely to be remembered for more than one thing. A speechwriter or a politician delivering the speech knows this (even Churchill's legendary speeches of May and June 1940, chock-a-block as they were with information, are each remembered only for ...