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President Donald Trump did the unthinkable Tuesday night
during his State of the Union address: he inspired a phalanx of left-wing women
members of Congress,
wearing white in protest, to jump to their feet and
applaud.
Lots of commentary on President Trump’s State of the Union
speech last night – but here’s part of Don Surber’s posting:
President Trump gave Americans a
reason to stand up and cheer their nation.
Even Democrats.
In 2018, they stoically refused to
applaud anything in his speech even when he noted Democrats were doing well.
This year, be broke that wall of their
resistance like it was Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on Election Day.
It happened earlier in the speech.
“So let’s work together,
compromise, and reach a deal that will truly make America safe. As we work to
defend our people’s safety, we must also ensure our economic resurgence
continues at a rapid pace. No one has benefited more from our thriving economy
than women, who have filled 58% of the newly created jobs last year,” President
Trump said.
The Women In White stood and
cheered.
“You weren’t supposed to do that.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much. All Americans can be proud that we
have more women in the workforce than ever before,” President Trump said.
“Don’t sit yet. You are going to
like this. And exactly one century after Congress passed the constitutional
amendment giving women the right to vote, we also have more women serving in
the Congress than at any time before.”
Then they really celebrated and
shouted USA! USA! USA!
At that point, the president made
it cool to want to Make America Great Again.
That scene told the tale of the
night. He made those congresswomen feel good about themselves and about their
country.
His full column is here. Full transcript of the SOTU speech is here (Conservative Treehouse).
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UPDATE: Patricia McCarthy at American Thinker
had a more critical take:
Trump's SOTU speech was wonderful,
factual and optimistic. It was a celebration of America and the
successes of the last two years. No one would know it by the visible
response of the ladies in white (allegedly an homage to women's suffrage), the
mostly newly elected Democrat congresswomen. The only part of the
speech they sincerely applauded was themselves – more women in
Congress. For most of the rest of the speech, they sat on their
hands, looking mad (Mazie Hirono), glum (all of them), petulant and dismissive
(Kamala Harris), bored and studiously disinterested (Nancy Pelosi).
. . .
It was a pathetic, un-American
spectacle, those women. In the end, they are about one thing, one
thing only: rage. Rage at whom and what? Who
knows? But it cannot be the country. Look at where they are,
the success they've attained. Each of them is an example of the
opportunity, freedom, and equality that only this nation provides, and still
they are angry. They still want to abort fully formed infants, tax
the rich into oblivion, and impose Venezuelan-style socialism on us all.
McCarthy's article is here.
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