When you cut through the noise, Trump has had a successful first year

Byron York:
Something is happening in the final days of 2017. People are noticing that Donald Trump has gotten a lot done in his tumultuous first year in the White House.

Assume that tax reform passes and is signed into law. If in, say, 2014, a Republican, of either the conservative or moderate variety, predicted that in 2017 a newly-elected GOP president and Congress would —


  1. Cut corporate and individual taxes.
  2. Repeal the Obamacare individual mandate.
  3. Appoint a highly-respected conservative to the Supreme Court.
  4. Appoint a one-year record number of judges to the circuit courts.
  5. Get rid of reams of unnecessary regulations.
  6. Destroy ISIS.
  7. Approve pipeline projects and new oil drilling.-- then a lot of Republicans would probably have cheered. Loudly.


No need to go through the litany of complaints against the president or the succession of hair-on-fire, Twitter-fueled controversies that have marked the wildest first year ever in presidential politics. Or the special counsel investigation into the Trump-Russia affair some Democrats (and some NeverTrump Republicans) hope will result in Trump's removal from office. Despite it all, Trump has racked up a solid record of first-year accomplishments.
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There is a growing relaization of the fact that most of the things Democrats have said and predicted have been wrong.  He ia also demonstrated that their policies were wrong.  By rollin gback Obama's regulatory onslaught, Trump has gotten the econbomy growing and the jobs market is becomeing robust.  That will only increase with the tax bill.  The stock market is a leading indicator that job creators and buseiness in general is growing at a rate Democrats were arguing was unrealistic a few months ago.

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