In addition to spending an inordinate amount of time on the USA hockey team’s victory in the Olympics, as Chris Lehmann observed on the night of the address, Trump “continues to threaten to invade Iran,” while also “calling out Democrats promoting a new affordability agenda.” And that’s just the half of it.

Much that we might have wanted to hear about on Tuesday night was absent, including, as StudentNation writer Ilana Cohen notes, the climate crisis. “In his first year in office, Trump and his administration have gone to immense lengths to prop up fossil fuel interests, including most recently by repealing the bedrock of the federal government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions,” writes Cohen. This should cause us concern, as our country is only a few years away from a 2030 emissions reduction deadline we will almost certainly not meet.

What to do about these varying misdeeds? Aaron Regunberg, inspired by “enshittification” theorist Cory Doctorow, sees a solution: Democrats should “launch a ‘Nuremberg Caucus’… to determine what accountability for the grotesqueries of Trump’s regime should look like.”

-Alana Pockros

Associate Editor, The Nation

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