Obama’s central point should have been that since America’s founding, government has built much of the public infrastructure that makes American capitalism possible. And since the progressive era, it has been government’s efforts to humanize and stabilize capitalism that has ameliorated the savage cycles of boom and bust that have fueled chaos and revolution overseas. It is today’s Republicans, Obama should have said, who have forgotten this core truth about America.

Peter Beinart says President Obama came up short in last night’s State of the Union. 

We’ve also got best moments of the speech and a round-up of our contributors’ takes on the address.

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