''Melania Trump, the First Lady of the United States, will view her
husband’s State of the Union address this evening in the company of
parents whose daughters were murdered by members of MS-13, the
Salvadoran-American criminal gang. It seems a strange elevation in
status for MS-13. If the state of the union in the most powerful and
wealthiest nation on Earth is actually strong, what does a street
gang have to do with anything? The choice gives some insight into the
nature of the Trump era, one year in, with his party in unified control
of government in Washington but his Presidency historically unpopular.
During the State of the Union, the President gets to describe his agenda
but also set the national scene. Trump is giving significance to an
immigrant street gang. He is in search of an enemy...
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