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The Democratic party showed it had learned nothing from the 2016 defeat and still has no idea how to deal with Trump and the Republican hegemony

During the State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening, the American people saw a boisterous, self-confident, united Republican party rally around its president, while a defeated, grim, and moping Democratic party looked on powerlessly.

As soon as the rather long State of the Union speech was over, liberal pundits and Democratic operatives started to attack it. Some focused on the lack of concrete policies or the nativist content of the immigration sections; others pointed out the lack of energy of the speech. They had seen a “low-energy” Trump and assumed the base would be left uninspired and wondering. It again showed their complete lack of understanding of the Trump-Republican party dynamic.

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