Trump's speech wasn't the scary part: All the Republican groveling was

[DonViejo]

Trump’s SOTU was a forgettable, familiar litany. What’s new is the GOP’s brain-dead eagerness to do his bidding

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
01.31.2018•8:05 AM

I waited for TV pundits to declare the "pivot" and proclaim Donald Trump to be our one true president after Tuesday night's lengthy State of the Union address. But with the exception of Fox News State TV, most were less effusive than the last time he addressed a joint session of Congress. That's not to say that nobody was impressed. Some people were evidently nearly brought to tears:

Link to tweet

By now most Americans take what Trump says with a grain of wait-and-see salt. There's never been a president in history for whom words matter less. Nonetheless, it's worth reflecting on a few of the ideas in the speech, just to remind ourselves of his main objectives.

Trump is not a bipartisan leader. After a year, that should be more than obvious. He is the most divisive president in modern memory in both style and substance. His speech did nothing to change that. He claimed to offer "an open hand to work with Americans of both parties," but it's as clear as ever that he means to use that hand to slap down his opponents and caress his supporters.

Trump's main issue was the same as the one he ran on in 2016: immigration. And he has not softened his stance or his rhetoric at all. In fact, he has become even more xenophobic and is now pushing major curbs on legal immigration, which was not a central theme until recently. He paints legal as well as illegal immigrants as dangerous criminals and promises to end the long-standing policy of family unification. Immigrants actually commit crimes at a dramatically lower rate than native-born citizens, but Trump never lets facts get in the way of a good, lurid tale about how foreigners are ruining America.

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[IADEMO2004]

1. Frank Luntz putting the vile in servile.

[Cha]

5. snap!

[dalton99a]

2. All the swamp creatures have converted to the cult

[procon]

3. Luntz is under contract to the GOP to make nice reports that make Republicans

look like normal folks. He earns a very nice living sucking up to them, so fake news aside, whatever comes out of his mouth is a lie.

[Cha]

4. Oh fuck, luntz.. you just screwed the

whatever.

Who the fuck would have "hope" from that lying sack of shite's speech?