Donald Trump’s State of the Union proved you have to fight dirty against him

I have watched two sides of the same Democratic party navigate this exact issue (Picture: Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

For years, Democrats have leaned on Michelle Obama’s famous line, ‘When they go low, we go high.’

As an ethos, it’s noble and dignified, but it’s also politically nullifying – because in the current climate dynamic, those who live by it may occupy the moral highground, but they don’t control the battlefield. 

Thus for so many years now we’ve seen Donald Trump’s Republicans define the narrative...