President Donald Trump needs his State of the Union address Tuesday to assuage voters anxious about the economy, foreign policy and even more tariff turmoil.
Indications are that he settled on an approach: steamrolling the assembled lawmakers, dignitaries and prime-time audience with a list of accomplishments in hopes of resetting a national mood that has curdled before the midterm elections.
“It’s going to be a long speech, because we have a lot to talk about,” Trump said Monday.
The risk is that it could further alienate voters wary of his immigration crackdown, uneasy with an increasingly interventionist foreign policy and ...