Isabel Brown

It's a great time.

The energy here is so palpable, and I think we've touched on a lot of the negativity surrounding the speech.

Certainly there were a lot of shocking moments sitting in the gallery.

I was across the room, it seems, from where Michael was sitting this evening, but

closer to the president's guests and looking across the room at most of the Democrat colleagues from the Republican side who refused to stand up and cheer for America, to call for an end to political violence, to offer condolences to widows and grieving mothers whose children had been killed by radical extremists and repeat offenders.

But you also saw a bit of an American comeback tonight, and I don't want the media to forget that, that we saw a resounding standing ovation from virtually every single individual

clapping and cheering and singing for multiple minutes on end when the USA hockey team walked in to show us their Olympic gold medals and chanting USA across party lines.

That's something that would have been impossible about 12 months ago, and yet here we are celebrating American exceptionalism again without being called racist for it.

So I think there's a lot to glean from some of the negativity, certainly, but there's a lot to look forward to and so much optimism to have to know that in many ways our country is back.

You know, I think it's obvious, Ben, more than ever before that for many, many years now in our country, we have been living in two different Americas, clearly in what we applaud for and what we fight for and against, but also in just our most basic values as Americans.

What I saw tonight sitting in the gallery of the U.S.

House of Representatives with half the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs, the entire presidential cabinet, the president and vice president of the United States, certainly almost every member of Congress and the most influential Americans from across multiple walks of life,

was a clear dichotomy between the United States of America as we have known and loved it for the last 250 years, the greatest society the world has ever known, built upon the foundation of our identity as one nation under God, and complete Marxist total chaos.

anarchy in society that rewards criminals over our citizens, that champions open borders, that refuses to prosecute those who are killing our citizens day in and day out, who champions political violence for your enemies rather than trying to come over our differences to be united in the concept of e pluribus unum again.

This is not sustainable.

As Abraham Lincoln is famous for saying, a house divided cannot stand.

but I am hopeful that what we're seeing inside of Washington with this concept of the unity party is beginning to extend to the rest of the country as well.

Most of these issues we talked about this evening were not the economy, shockingly, they were social issues, like transing our kids and some of these conversations we've been having for many years in the e-space, but very few people here in Washington have been having.

I think that was intentional

because these are 90-10 issues.