Trump's List of Jobs American Heroes Do Extended All the Way From Fighting Fires to Being a Marine

Even though it likely won't have much of a lasting impact on any particular legislative issue or on the dynamics of American politics as a whole, Donald Trump's State of the Union speech last night was certainly instructive as a look into how his mind works. This was true in particular of his rhetoric about immigrants and crime, but if you want to understand Trump's political project even more broadly, you could do worse than one seemingly innocuous paragraph towards the end of the speech: