Republicans pounced, launching investigations, comparing the discovery to former President Trump's retention of hundreds of classified documents and slamming Democrats.
Wisconsin's Governor Tony Evers wrote in a letter to Trump, " I am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together" .
More than rhetoric and political prose, the ability to build consensus and achieve bipartisan success will help heal our country's racial inequities and bring us forward -- together.
Perhaps after a challenging time, an enticing external offeror having been together for a while, instead of breaking up, you could find and create a better path forward together.
2019 can be the year we put our differences aside and move forward together, into a strong new relationship with our European neighbours and out into the world as a globally trading nation.
A landslide like Franklin D. Roosevelt's in 1932 or Ronald Reagan's in 1980 would have signaled a nation ready to move on from its cultural and ideological cleavages and seek some way forward together.