while he “gets none,” he didn’t just pay her a compliment; he invited the American public to view the First Family as a balanced team—one that wields both the hammer of the President’s rhetoric and the velvet glove of the First Lady’s diplomacy.
The reaction to the speech has followed the familiar fissures of the American landscape, but for a few minutes on a Monday night, the country wasn’t just talking about trade deals or border security. They were talking about a husband, a wife, and a joke about the one thing that seems most elusive in modern Washington: the ability to get everyone to agree on something.
