In his second State of the Union address this week, President Trump called for unity

and an end to the partisanship that has characterized Washington for most of the 21st century.

The decision is ours to make.

We must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance,

vision or vengeance, incredible progress or pointless destruction. Tonight, I ask you to choose greatness.

Ron Brownstein, a senior editor at the Atlantic and political analyst for CNN as well.

Good to have you back on our program, as always.

Glad to be here.

How likely is it that Congress is going to choose a vision rather than vengeance to use the president's term

well i i wouldn't get you know when you get the construct uh... that that

validation to continue to be uh... analogy

but almost none right and essentially zero uh... this is uh... what you would call

a snowflake declaration that would dissolve on contact because there's

certainly been you know i mean look, presidents, the general trend of American politics is that we are

seeing it becoming more divisive, each side, more rallying in it, you know, to its own corner.

But Trump, I think, is the first president who has really shown essentially no interest in speaking

to voters beyond his coalition.

He's the first president in history of Gallup polling since World War II, never to reach 50%

support at any point during his first two years, never gotten about 45%. If you look at his rhetoric,

you look at his agenda, you look at his style, everything about him, is really, he sees himself

as the president of Red America.

And I think one speech is very unlikely to change that.

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