maybe he s trying to force people to think that things are better than they are but i think he was trying to say tomorrow will be better than today was acknowledging the painful experiences. if you think about it he came to office telling people i know how to do foreign policy and that rests on alliances and what you have seen over the early days of this war is him turning not only to his personal relationship to europe but just to a faith in the possibility of alliances, to unity broadly described on the international scale. that was running through this speech. the idea that you couldn t respond to putin s aggression, you couldn t respond in the name of democracy if you didn t believe that the united states is stronger when it s together with its allies. then on the domestic front of course as we all know he thinks about unity but tonight he made it functional. this idea of a unity agenda. these are not wildly controversial ideas, combatting opioids, investing in cutting edge healt