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To set the stage, you would have had to know that the congressional Democrats have been hand-wringing for days over how they were going to handle the speech, seeing as Trump has been systematically dismantling the federal government, destroying the economy and discarding the existing world order.

He dismissed global "hand-wringing" about AI safety.

The announcement by the Chinese firm DeepSeek of its R1 model also provoked not a little hand-wringing over the idea that China could so easily have outpaced American tech companies, which have spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to bring their AI performance to a level that DeepSeek seems to have achieved at a fraction of the cost.

A report by Robert Hur, a special counsel appointed to investigate Biden's handling of classified documents, referred to the president as an "elderly man with a poor memory", setting off a round of hand-wringing among Democrats.

The collective impact of all of this neurotic, overcautious hand-wringing was to communicate indifference to the voters.