Expert: A Brilliant SOTU

Bless the Drudge Report for no-paywall access to a Peggy Noonan column at the Wall Street Journal. Back in the day Noonan was one of the best presidential speech-writers ever, and she remains an excellent judge of the art form.

This column gives you her reaction to the SOTU and Pelosi’s reaction thereto. Yes, she feels she has to say Trumps is “a bad man and half mad.” Don’t let that throw you.

The rest of the column is about what a good job it (and implicitly he) did, and how pathetic the Democrats looked sitting there acting pissed about all the good (true) things being said about the last three years. See her conclusion:

This was the president putting the Republican Party on the side of the nobodies of all colors as opposed to the somebodies. (Van Jones on CNN had it exactly right: Trump is going for black and Hispanic men, and the Democrats are foolish not to see it.) This is a realignment I have supported and a repositioning I have called for and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t please me to see it represented so effectively, and I very much regret that the president is a bad man and half mad because if he weren’t I’d be cheering.

Whatever happens with him, that is the party’s future. Whatever happens with the Democrats they cannot afford another week like this.

That “bad man” is who made it happen, Peggy, go ahead and cheer.