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Conrad Black
has a great wrap-up of Trump’s presidential campaign, election and first year
as POTUS. He begins with Trump’s candidacy:
Trump was attacking the entire political
establishment, the whole Washington sleaze factory, all factions of both
parties, all the Bushes, Clintons, and Obama, the national media, the
lobbyists, Wall Street, Hollywood, and the limousine Left from the Hamptons to
Silicon Valley. Of course the Trump campaign was insane and impossible, and was
doomed to be a ludicrous fiasco, a gigantic, comical clown act that misfired
horribly.
On Election Night, Nobel prize–winning (for
economics) New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said the stock market would
“never recover” from the Trump victory. (It has set a new all-time high more
than 90 times since.) . . .
This year [Trump] has won over the congressional
Republican party, which had almost entirely opposed him, to toil in the
enactment of his program. Together they have achieved the greatest tax reform
and reduction in over 30 years, largely emasculated Obamacare, put a rod on the
backs of those states that elect incompetents like Jerry Brown and the Cuomos
and lay the resulting state income taxes off on the whole country, repatriated
trillions of dollars of corporate profit, exonerated over half the people from
personal income taxes, reduced the return of 80 percent of taxpayers to a
postcard, and produced conditions for 4 percent GDP growth next year. . .
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Considering the sustained assault of 90 percent of
the media, in which the normal honeymoon for a new president has been replaced
by a daily media assassination squad, he has done well.
The article is at the National Review website here.
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