Trump Flipped the Opposition
Democrats had to wonder how long they’d get away with the socialism hooey.
Two analyses of the State of the Union speech are possible—one short, one long. The short version is that if the presidential figure who delivered this speech replaced Trump of Twitter, he’d be on his way to four more years. The chances of that happening are zero. So on to a longer speculation on the speech’s probable effects on Mr. Trump’s prospects for re-election.
Since the midterms, in which many suburban voters turned against the president, the Democrats’ solitary political strategy has been that Mr. Trump would self-destruct....