The good that Trump accomplished

 Power Line:

Donald Trump was, in my opinion, our best president since Ronald Reagan, rather easily. His achievements are impressive: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the biggest and most successful deregulatory effort ever, improved trade deals, record low unemployment, substantial wage growth for middle-class and working-class families for the first time in decades, encouraging development of oil and gas resources, pushing back against political correctness, critical race theory, and so on. And in the end, Operation Warp Speed, lowering regulatory barriers to accelerate development of covid vaccines in record time.

Trump’s foreign policy record was equally impressive: standing up to both China and Russia, reinvigorating NATO, destroying ISIS, treating Israel as an ally rather than a pariah, and going a long way toward bringing peace to the Middle East. All while successfully avoiding military action overseas.

Trump’s accomplishments are even more remarkable, given the unremitting hostility and obstructionism to which he was subjected from the day he took office. The centerpiece, of course, was the Russia collusion hoax, which was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign, adopted by the FBI and other government agencies, and institutionalized in the form of a special counsel. No president has ever been subjected to anything similar, let alone on such a flimsy basis.

But that wasn’t all: apart from the Russia hoax–supplemented, one should note, by the Ukraine kerfuffle and the Democrats’ comic-opera impeachments–Trump faced not just opposition, but non-stop hate, from the press, Big Tech and big business generally, academia, Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment industry, the public schools, almost all of the federal bureaucracy (including the bureaucrat/”expert” D.C. revolving door), the China Lobby, and–to sum up–the rest of the Swamp.

Why did Trump succeed as often as he did in the face of such relentless, and often crazed, opposition? Because he represented the American people, and his policies made sense. When Trump said “America first,” the establishment swooned in horror. Most people, on the other hand, thought it sounded like the president’s job description. It is a sign of the times that a presidential candidate’s vow to defend the American people, and advance America’s interests, was seen by many as radical.

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He had to deal with the virus and with the occasional revolt against his sometimes tempestuous personality.

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