If you set aside the hardline immigration stuff, this is a speech that positions Trump on the center right and boxes Democrats into a corner on the left. That's the aim, anyway.
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Replying to @blakehounshell
how many times do we have to do this is with a speech written by someone else that he delivers and whose core themes he abandons and violates the next day?
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Replying to @chrislhayes
We can evaluate this speech in terms of its political effectiveness. That's a different thing than some of the "day he became president" stuff people said during his first State of the Union address.
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Replying to @blakehounshell
yeah I mean it's a single, discerete text in a moment in time, but I feel like we've learned our lesson on the meaning of that?
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Replying to @chrislhayes @blakehounshell
democrats may box themselves on the left with their nominee. but how does this speech box them? having a hard time comprehending.
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"if you set aside the hardline immigration stuff". But they put it in, so you can't say that their intent was to do something that doesn't include that content
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Replying to @SenTrofe @blakehounshell and
If you stop Trump being Trump, Trump is not Trump.
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Very wise.
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