Gerald Butts: The president delivered a great speech in a time of profound national need. If he follows it with disciplined action, it just might become iconic.
Before President Donald Trump vowed to end the ‘American carnage’, those two words had rarely been heard together, outside of fans of death metal music
‘We’ is the best way for a president to evoke a sense of unity. Obama said it 60 times.
“We must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”