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Donald Trump knows. He knows that it's open season, as it always is,  on the opposition party. The President mentioned Joe Biden on thirteen occasions in Tuesday's State of the Union Address. You probably noticed that none of the references was positive- or even neutral. There were thirteen, in twelve paragraphs, six involving a variety of topics. (Feel free to skip to "The Democratic rebuttal....")

We ended all of Biden's environmental restrictions that were making our country far less safe and totally unaffordable. And importantly, we ended the last administration's insane electric vehicle mandate. Saving our auto workers and companies from economic destruction.

Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control. The egg price is out of control, and we're working hard to get it back down. Secretary, do a good job on that. You inherited a total mess from the previous administration. Do a good job.

It may be a little bit of an adjustment period. We had that before when I made the deal with China. $50 billion in purchases, and I said, just bear with me. And they did. They did. Probably have to bear with me again and this will be even better. That was great. The problem with it was that Biden didn't enforce it. He didn't enforce it - $50 billion of purchases. And we were doing great. But Biden did not enforce it, and it hurt our farmers.

I did it with China and I did it with others, and the Biden administration couldn't do anything about it because there was so much money. They couldn't do anything about it. 

And look, And look where Biden took us to. Very low. The lowest we've ever been. Jeff,

 But we're getting along very well with them and lots of good things are happening. Biden has authorized more money in this fight. than Europe has spent by billions and billions of dollars.

Six references to pertained to one of the few matters, immigration, on which President Biden's performance was faulty.

In comparison, under Joe Biden, the worst president in American history. There were hundreds of thousands of illegal crossings a month, and virtually.

So while we take out the criminals, killers, traffickers and child predators who are allowed to enter our country under the open border policy of these people, the Democrats, the Biden administration, the open border. insane policies that you've allowed to destroy our country.

Many of them were murderers, human traffickers, gang members and other criminals from the streets of dangerous cities all throughout the world because of Joe Biden's insane and very dangerous open border policies. They are now strongly embedded in our country, but. We are getting them out and getting them out fast.

That morning, Laken was viciously attacked, assaulted, beaten, brutalized, and horrifically murdered. Laken was stolen from us by a savage illegal alien gang member. Who was arrested while trespassing across Biden's open southern border and then set loose into the United States under the heartless policies of that failed administration. It was indeed a failed administration. He had then been arrested. and released in a Democrat run sanctuary city, a disaster before ending the. life of this beautiful young angel.

Joe Biden didn't just open our borders, he flew illegal aliens over them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals and communities throughout the country. Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody's ever seen before. Beautiful towns destroyed. Now, just as I promised in my inaugural address, we are achieving the great liberation of America.

Countless thousands of these terrorists were welcomed into the U.S by the Biden administration. But now every last one will be rounded up and forcibly removed from our country. Or if they're too dangerous, put in jail…..

The Democratic rebuttal was offered by freshman senator Elissa Slotnick of Michigan.  At 22:27 of the video below, the Senator can be seen remarking

President Trump likes to say "peace through strength." That's actually a line he stole from Ronald Reagan. But let me tell you. After the spectacle that just took place in the Oval Office last week, Reagan must be rolling in his grave. We all want an end to the war in Ukraine but Reagan understood that true strength required America to combine our military and economic might with moral clarity. 

And that scene in the Oval Office wasn't just an episode of reality TV. It summed up Trump's whole approach to the world. He believes in cozying up to dictators like Vladimir Putin and kicking our friends like the Canadians in the teeth. He sees American leadership as merely a series of real estate transactions. As a Cold War kid, I'm thankful that it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980s Trump would have lost us the Cold War.

Probably so. However, Slotnick's reasoning is one all too common among among individuals who bring to mind the GOP slur "Republicans in Name Only" (RINOs). After showing this clip, an exasperated Kyle Kulinski at 23:10 responds

Ah, we have "you gotta hand it to George W. Bush and you gotta hand it to Ronald Reagan in the same Democratic speech- Democratic. Why can't you do a like "you gotta hand it to Lyndon B. Johnson with the War on Poverty and you gotta hand it to FDR with the New Deal."  Zero mentions of FDR; multiple mentions of George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. Guys, this is the core of the problem. This is the heart of the problem right here.

                 

By contrast, no Republican ever says of a disappointing Republican "why can't he be like Barack Obama (or Bill Clinton)" nor "Franklin Roosevelt would be rolling over in his grave." Never. He or she prefers to spend time and words blasting the favorite Democratic target of the era.

The President did that twelve (12) times, to little criticism or even notice. It is what both the media and Democrats have come to expect, and to neither is it news. Democrats never have defended their own as have Republicans and often have fallen back to the kind of argument invoked by Senator Slotkin. You are not a good Republican; You are not a true conservative. ("Remember when Republicans were for balanced budgets!"); You, sir, are no Ronald Reagan.

It's hard for a political party to build a message or brand out of that. If only there were a Democrat who is popular among party officials, more so among Democrats in the street, more so yet among the base (black women).  Ideally, that person would be able to speak with gravitas and legitimately claim that he or she uniquely understands the nature of the office President Trump holds. 

And yet former President Barack Obama remains silent. The man who served eight years as President, he of the (D) after his name, has barely been heard from the last eight weeks as Donald Trump takes apart the government, the Trans-Atlantic Alliance, and representative democracy. Crickets. "Where have you gone, Barack Obama?"

Obama did have a friendly chat with President Trump at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, an exchange I at the time erroneously thought meant nothing. Perhaps it was their status as among the fewer than fifty individuals who have ever held the highest office in what has been the most powerful nation on earth. Or there was some other reason. Whatever, as Bob Dole would have said.

              

Nonetheless, whether former President Obama or some other figure respected in the Party takes the reigns, someone has to break out of the pack and take a leadership role. For decades, Republicans used Jimmy Carter as a whipping boy, the name becoming synonymous with "failed," if not worse. The same is in danger of happening to Joe Biden, who was a very good President but whom very few prominent Democrats will defend. That's bad for Joe Biden, and bad for the Democratic Party. 

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