[Candor7]

Ask not for whom the Prez trolls.

He trolls for thee!

[ocrp1982]

President Trump is excellent at the setup. He sets the stage in such a way that the results highlight the efficacy of his positions on any subject while simultaneously illustrating the flaws in the positions of his opponents.
He does this with the deftness and skill of someone whom has many years experience doing so and, who also happens to have a knack for this means of setting the stage to his advantage.

[bigbob]

A very smart observation - and until now I hadn't thought that Trump had engineered it, but he surely did! By forcing the democrats to expose their ugly hateful side to the public, he gained more than he could have through words calling them out.

They say we have a "cancel culture" where unpopular opinions or people are totally boycotted and shunned on social media. That's what Pelosi did with her stupid ripping-up stunt, but in fact she ripped up the stories of those invited guests who Trump honored. She said she could not find a word of truth in the speech - that's as good as calling the black girl going to her chosen school or the oldest Tuskegee airman a liar and fraud. For cancelling these great Americans, to Hell with Nancy Pelosi, and as quickly as possible!

[Hojczyk]

They also watch the reactions of the people in the room. He engineered the speech to force his opponents to react in potentially self-defeating ways

That says it all

More from the article..

Viewers were left to wonder: Why wouldn’t Pelosi applaud money for historically black colleges and universities? What’s her beef with a serviceman who returns from deployment to hug his kids? Where’s her feeling for the brother of a man killed by an undocumented criminal? All of these visuals could be explained in policy terms, but as Ronald Reagan once confided to his diary, “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”

Von Drehle says he wouldn’t be surprised if the next Gallup poll shows President Trump in positive territory for the first time. I wouldn’t be either.

[goldstategop]

Democrats scowling and sitting on their hands as Trump lauded the economy and celebrated American achievements was disastrous.

They’re being killed by the visuals and on that level alone Trump’s SOTU was very effective, indeed.

[Publius]

The only drawback was the last two lines of his speech. You could hear he was dog tired, otherwise he would have pulled a Reagan and hit the last two lines out of the park.

[workerbee]

Did he understate the record of his predecessor? Yes.

Only if you count "generously not beating him like a dead commie mule on live television" is considered understating the record.

[frogjerk]

Real people benefiting from Trump’s values, beliefs and policies and real people who suffer from the opposition’s lack of values, belief in evil philosophies and policies. REAL AMERICANS

[RatRipper]

It was a very powerful and effective speech for those of us who like his policies.

On the flip side, had I been a Democrat, especially one in the room with him, I think I would have felt like I had been beaten with a baseball bat.

Tough to argue with common sense and sound reasoning that has led to many, many successes. If you do argue, you are damning yourself . . . and THAT is why the left is trying to silence Trump.

[SanchoP]

-—— and they’re just now figuring this out after he turns political rallies into rock concerts?

[Eleutheria5]

He gets it. But he does this with every speech and at every rally. He’s always interacting with the audience and even the cameramen, and making sure that it’s noted on TV.

[Lopeover]

You don’t need to force socialist/Communists to respond in specific ways They are what they are. America hating pinkos, anarchists and political islamists.

[G Larry]

Excellent!

[ClearCase_guy]

In some ways, President Trump is turning the Stalin quote on its head: "The death of one person is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic."

Example: We've killed 60 million unborn babies. [shrug] Who cares? Because, you know, choice is important. Well -- here is a happy mother and her precious daughter -- because, you know, life is a miracle.

Put a face on things. It's not just about sound bites for a Progressive utopia. It's real people, fighting the good fight day after day. When you see it that way, it's hard to see the Left as anything but cold and heartless. Like Stalin.

[edwinland]

Some on the left have talked about impeaching Trump again. You have to wonder if they’re secretly on his payroll.

Giving meaning to the term L O L

[polymuser]

Sounds like being seen as the losers they are is beginning to suck for some D’rats with above-room-temperature IQs...

[jocon307]

Yep. And don’t forget the Tuskeegee Airman and his future Astronaut great grandson.

And this is how the Dems came across: they hate the old black man, they hate the little black kids (who were ADORABLE btw, esp. that little girl in her big glasses, she just looked like an excellent student), they hate the little baby, and they hate the baby’s mom!

[Bandmeeting]

Paul Mirengoff, no thanks. I quit reading Powerline about 6 months ago because of his Never-Trump posts.

[elpadre]

Anyone running against the Democrats in that room Tuesday, will be able to make some great videos demonstrating why they should all be voted out of office.

[jimmygrace]

I think Ben Shapiro’s analysis is the best I’ve heard... He boiled them slowly so they didn’t know what was happening to them... He started off with non-political issues such as low unemployment and higher wages and got the dimocrats to sit on their hands. Then, when he got to the more political issues with great guests, they had no choice but to keep sitting.