Leading up to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, a speech intended to celebrate 250 years — a quarter-millennium — of American success, there hadn’t been this much caterwauling about an elected president by Democrats since Richard Nixon.
Or maybe Abraham Lincoln.
Some six dozen Democrat lawmakers — including the AWFL Katharine Clark, the Democrats’ House Minority Whip — boycotted the State of the Union speech, evincing a level of disrespect for the president that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, and most of them were performative about the boycott. For example, here’s the thoroughly obnoxious Jim McGovern, congressman from Massachusetts…
The performative boycotting was always fraught with political risk.
For example, the U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team, fresh off a gold medal courtesy of an overtime win over Canada, no less, was getting its first national celebratory reception at the State of the Union address. This was the first Olympic gold medal for U.S. men’s hockey since the Miracle on Ice team accomplished that feat in 1980, some 46 years ago, and it’s a patriotic duty to celebrate the victory.
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