A Year of Achievement-The case for the Trump presidency by Victor Davis Hanson

[truth_seeker]

A Year of Achievement-The case for the Trump presidency

Victor Davis Hanson February 7, 2018

As President Trump finished his first full year in office, he could look back at an impressive record of achievement of a kind rarely attained by an incoming president — much less by one who arrived in office as a private-sector billionaire without either prior political office or military service. As unintended proof of his accomplishments, Trump’s many liberal opponents have gone from initially declaring him an incompetent to warning that he has become effective — insanely so — in overturning the Obama progressive agenda.

Never Trump Republicans acknowledge that Trump has realized much of what they once only dreamed of — from tax reform and deregulation to a government about-face on climate change, the ending of the Obamacare individual mandate, and expansion of energy production.

Trump so far has not enacted the Never Trump nightmare agenda. The U.S. is not leaving NATO. It is not colluding with Vladimir Putin, but maintaining sanctions against Russia and arming Ukrainians. It is not starting a tariff war with China. The administration is not appointing either liberals or incompetents to the federal courts.

A politicized FBI, DOJ, and IRS was Obama’s legacy, not Trump’s doing, as some of the Never Trump circle predicted. Indeed, the Never Trump movement is now mostly calcified, as even some of its formerly staunch adherents concede. It was done in by the Trump record and the monotony of having to redefine a once-welcomed conservative agenda as suddenly unpalatable due to Trump’s crude fingerprints on it.

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 Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456168/donald-trump-first-year-conservative-success-story?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=44ce3e3179-HDR&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-44ce3e3179-73083069

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[Emjay]

What a great piece of praise for the unlikely President.

[aligncare]

As VDH points out in this fairly comprehensive review, Trump’s first year of domestic and foreign policy actions have been broadly positive.

Of course many Trump critics will still find something to bitch about. They always do.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

As VDH points out in this fairly comprehensive review, Trump’s first year of domestic and foreign policy actions have been broadly positive.

Of course many Trump critics will still find something to bitch about. They always do.

VDH has long been a man whose imprimature immediately snares my eye and gets my time to hear him out.

Thank You Prof Hanson.