On Tuesday night, Donald Trump delivered a long and news-free address to the nation. “There was no resetting of the narrative, no course correction nor even a meaningful explanation of what the course is,” Susan B. Glasser writes.
The problem for Trump is that he’s not a persuader; he’s a pitchman, the kind of salesman who transmits in exclamation points all the fantastic, terrific, unbelievable features of the new car he wants you to buy. “A short time ago, we were a dead country!” Trump said in his speech. But, as Susan B. Glasser writes, “The salesman is not who you want to talk to when when you have the broken-down old jalopy towed back to the lot and demand a refund. Based on the polls, it’s pretty apparent that America wants its money back.” Read her column on Trump’s State of the Union address.
