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Trump’s speech to Congress has the ingredients for an explosive event

“You begin to see, especially under Obama’s second term, members of Congress thinking they can reply audibly, yelling ‘You lie’ and making it less about unifying the country and more about fracture and division within Congress itself,” said Allison Prasch, an expert on presidential rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “It becomes this theater and stage for the opposition.”